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"CADASIL coma": an underdiagnosed acute encephalopathy.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Feb 2003
Schon F, Martin R J, Prevett M, Clough C, Enevoldson T P, Markus H S
Abstract excerpt
The main clinical features of CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy) are stroke, dementia, and migraine. A reversible acute encephalopathy was the principal presentation in six of 70 patients in a British prevalence study. The episodes lasted seven to 14 days, presenting with fever, acute confusion, coma, and fits; there was full recovery but in two...
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