Name
ATAXIA
DESCRIPTION
DETAIL
D.D. : 1. PROGRESSIVE & SYMETRIC ATAXIA A. ACUTE & SUBACUTE ONSET * CAUSED BY ALCOHOL, PHENYTOIN, LITHIUM, BARBITURATES, TOLUNE EXPOSURE, GASOLINE SNIFFLING, GLUE SNIFFLING, SPRAY PAINTING, EXPOSURE TO METHYL MERCURY & BISMUTH. * TREATMENT WITH FLUOROURACIL, PACLITAXEL * CHILDREN AFTER VERICELLA INFECTION * RARELY AFTER POLIOMYELITIS, COXSACKIE VIRUS, ECHO VIRUS, EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS, TOXOPLASMOSIS, LEGIONELLA INFECTION. * CREUTZFELDT- JAKOB DISEASE B. SUBACUTE ONSET * ALCOHOLISM WITH MALNUTRITION MAINLY OF VIT B1 & B12 * HYPONATREMIA * PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME IN BREAST & OVARIAN CANCER C. CHRONIC * INHERITED ATAXIA * METABOLIC ATAXIA - HYPOTHYROIDISM * CHRONIC INFECTION - MENINGOVASCULAR SYPHILIS - TABES DORSALIS - LYME DISEASE 2. FOCAL ATAXIA A. ACUTE * CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES LIKE ISCHEMIC INFARCTION, HEMORRHAGIC INFARCTION OR CEREBELLAR HAEMORRHAGE * POST FOSSA SUBDURAL HAEMATOMA, BACTERIAL ABSCESS, PRIMARY OR METASTATIC CEREBELLAR TUMOR OR AC DEMYELINATING LESION OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS B. CHRONIC * MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS * CONGENITAL LESIONS LIKE CHIARI TYPE-I MALFORMATION * CONGENITAL CYSTS OF POST FOSSA INHERITED ATAXIA * AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT ATAXIA - SCA ( SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA )TYPE 1 THROUGH TYPE 13 - DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY - EPISODIC ATAXIA TYPE I & TYPE II * AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE ATAXIA LIKE - FRIEDREICHS ATAXIA - ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA - XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM - MITOCHONDRIAL ATAXIA - COCKAYNE SYNDROME - MARINESCO-SJOGREN SYNDROMEOTHER TESTS : * SPECIFIC AUTOANTIBODIES ( YO, RI& PCD) WHICH MAY DEGENERATE CEREBELLUM IN OVARIAN & BREAST CANCER BEFORE THE ACTUAL CANCER SIGN & SYMPTOMS PRESENTATION.
TYPENOTES
RELATED DISEASE
Not Available Disease
DISEASE
INVESTIGATION
ANTI-NUCLEAR ANTIBODY TEST, ULTRA SOUND WHOLE ABDOMEN - FEMALE, COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT, MRI, X-RAY