Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Uremic parkinsonism with bilateral basal ganglia lesions: a puzzling syndrome with good outcome

  • Letter to the Editor
  • Published:
Acta Neurologica Belgica Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1

Data availability

Not applicable.

References

  1. Hamed S, Mohamed K, Abd Elhameed S et al (2020) Movement disorders due to selective basal ganglia lesions with uremia. Can J Neurol Sci 47(3):350–365

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Wang HC, Cheng SJ (2003) The syndrome of acute bilateral basal ganglia lesions in diabetic uremic patients. J Neurol 250(8):948–955

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Hamed SA (2019) Neurologic conditions and disorders of uremic syndrome of chronic kidney disease: presentations, causes, and treatment strategies. Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol 12(1):61–90

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Safarpour Y, Vaziri ND, Jabbari B (2021) Movement disorders in chronic kidney disease—a descriptive review. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 30(9):105408

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Manickavasagar R, Chemmanam T, Youssef A, Agarwal A, Prentice DA, Irish AB (2022) The extrapyramidal syndromes of chronic kidney disease and dialysis (Eps-ckdd): diagnostic criteria, risk factors and prognosis. QJM: An Int J Med 115(6):359–366

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Funding

Not applicable.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine, Aseer Central Hospital, Abha, Saudi Arabia

    Hussein Algahtani

  2. College of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Omar Algahtani

  3. Department of Neuroscience, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Bader Shirah

  4. Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Suez, Egypt

    Raafat Ahmed

  5. College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah Ahmad

Authors
  1. Hussein Algahtani
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Omar Algahtani
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Bader Shirah
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Raafat Ahmed
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Abdullah Ahmad
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Hussein Algahtani.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

This study was approved by the research ethics committee at Aseer Central Hospital.

Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from the participant.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Algahtani, H., Algahtani, O., Shirah, B. et al. Uremic parkinsonism with bilateral basal ganglia lesions: a puzzling syndrome with good outcome. Acta Neurol Belg (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-024-02475-3

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-024-02475-3

Keywords

Search

Navigation