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The analogy between the "failure-to-thrive" syndrome of childhood and a symptom complex seen in adult neurology is described. Adults presenting with a variety of central nervous system diseases occasionally seem to follow an unusual stereotyped course resulting in intractable weight loss, wide variations in temperature, and a tendency to intractable decubitus ulcerations in a setting of decreased levels of consciousness. Sudden death occurs unexpectedly. This syndrome can be observed following cerebral thrombosis, traumatic encephalopathy, degenerative central nervous system disorders, and encephalitis. The pathophysiology is thought to result from the random aggregate of lesions rather than a verifiable discrete hypothalamic deficit.
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PMID:Adult "failure-to-thrive" syndrome. 127 Oct 46

We reported a 62-year-old male with cerebral thrombosis presenting global aphasia without hemiparesis. The patient had an episode of aphasia 15 years ago, but recovered within 6 months. This time he had transient right sided mild hemiparesis, then he became aphasia next morning. When we examined at day 10 and day 15, his consciousness was clear, nothing he could speech, he could not understand or repeat. We diagnosed him global aphasia, but he had no hemiparesis except for right facial mild paresis and was able to walk. CT scan showed low density area in left and right posterior, left anterior watershed and left terminal zone. Cerebral angiography disclosed thrombotic occlusion of main trunk of left middle cerebral artery, and ambient segment of right posterior cerebral artery. Global aphasia without hemiparesis has been said a sign of embolic encephalopathy. This case was considered a very rare case, because he revealed global aphasia without hemiparesis by thrombotic occlusion.
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PMID:[A case of cerebral thrombosis presenting global aphasia without hemiparesis]. 169 61

A case of hereditary hemorrhagic teleangiectasia (HHT) or Rendu-Osler-Weber disease with neurological involvement is reported. The patient presented a diffuse cortical dysfunction with seizures after a gastric haemorrhage disturbance. The authors could not find vascular malformations of brain or pulmonary arteriovenous fistula (PAVF), so a anoxic encephalopathy followed a shock or a microangiopathic dysfunction is postulated. The main neurological manifestations of HHT are discussed, emphasizing in the first place the role of the PAVF on the genesis of cerebral hypoxemia and brain abscess and occasionally a cerebral thrombosis caused by polycythemia and in the second place the vascular malformations of brain and spinal cord. The portal-systemic encephalopathy may also occur as a neurological complication in few cases.
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PMID:[Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Report of a case]. 666 Nov 5