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Split-brain syndrome after hepatic transplantation: a tacrolimus-related vasculitis?
- Source :
- Metabolic Brain Disease. 25:155-159
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010.
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Abstract
- An unusual case of inter-haemispheric disconnection syndrome occurring in a patient who had undergone hepatic transplantation is presented. The underlying disorder, at first wrongly interpreted as encephalitis, was found to be severe, diffuse cerebral vasculitis. The hypothesis that treatment with tacrolimus might have caused, or at least favoured the vascular damage is discussed.
- Subjects :
- Male
Vasculitis
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Cirrhosis
medicine.medical_treatment
education
Liver transplantation
Biochemistry
Tacrolimus
Corpus Callosum
Disability Evaluation
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Fatal Outcome
medicine
Disconnection syndrome
Humans
Cerebral infarction
business.industry
Cerebral Infarction
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
humanities
Cerebral Angiography
Liver Transplantation
Transplantation
surgical procedures, operative
Disease Progression
Brain Damage, Chronic
Neurology (clinical)
business
Split-Brain Procedure
Cerebral vasculitis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15737365 and 08857490
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Metabolic Brain Disease
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fa916870c3b2cdf279fcc46f78d04281
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11011-010-9192-z