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Abstract Details

Supranuclear Oculomotor Palsy In Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis: A Rare Occurrence
Cerebrovascular Disease and Interventional Neurology
P1 - Poster Session 1 (9:00 AM-5:00 PM)
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Here, we are reporting a rare combination of  Oculomotor apraxia (OA), Apraxia of eyelid closure (AEC) and motor impersistence (MI) in a venous stroke patient. 
A variety of eyelid and eye movement abnormalities have been attributed to lesions of the central nervous system. AEC, less common than Apraxia of eyelid Opening (AEO) is reported in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, Huntington’s Disease, Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis and acquired frontal and parietal lobe diseases like stroke. 
A 34 years old male presented with headache, vomiting, focal seizure with bilateral tonic clonic movements and altered sensorium for past 4 days. There was no preceding history of fever, head injury or chronic drug intake. He did not have any previous comorbidities. On examination, his Glasgow Coma Scale was E2V1M4 and there were decreased movements of both upper and lower limbs with bilateral extensor plantar responses. 

Magnetic resonance imaging revealed bilateral frontal and left parietal haemorrhagic infarct and contrast venography revealed superior sagittal sinus thrombosis. Patient received low molecular weight heparin with two antiepileptics. His thrombophilia testing was positive for lupus anticoagulant and serum homocysteine was elevated. He was prescribed intravenous cyanocobalamin 1000 mcg along with thiamine 100 mg and pyridoxine 100 mg in combination daily for 7 days and then weekly. On day 3 of admission, his GCS improved to E4V5M6 with no seizure recurrence.  On re-examination at day 3, patient had a rare combination of AEC with MI and OA. By day 10 of admission, all these oculomotor abnormalities subsided.

Non-motor signs of eye have been previously reported in other pathologies involving the frontal and parietal cortex. However, this combination of both OA and AEC with MI in a patient of Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is the first case report to the best of our knowledge.

Authors/Disclosures
Varun K. Singh, MD, MBBS (IMS, BHU)
PRESENTER
Dr. Singh has nothing to disclose.
Kumar Bismaya, DM (Banaras Hindu University) Dr. Bismaya has nothing to disclose.
No disclosure on file
Abhishek Dixit No disclosure on file
Anand Kumar, MD, DM (Institute of Medical Sciences BHU) Dr. Kumar has nothing to disclose.