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Recurrent stroke due to a novel voltage sensor mutation in Cav2.1 responds to verapamil.
Stroke - 1 Feb 2011
Knierim Ellen, Leisle Lilia, Wagner Christiane, Weschke Bernhard, Lucke Barbara, Bohner Georg, Dreier Jens P, Schuelke Markus
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Familial hemiplegic migraine is characterized by recurrent migraine, hemiparesis, and ataxia. Causes may be mutations in calcium and sodium channels or in a subunit of the Na/K-ATPse. Migraine treatment with calcium channel blockers was only successful in some patients. Summary of Case- We describe a 6-year-old girl with recurrent ischemic strokes after minor head trauma associated with...
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