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Rare and rarer: co-occurrence of stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy and Charles Bonnet syndromes
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029529
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A description of the experience
Oxf Med Case Reports. 2018 Oct 5;2018(10):omy077. doi: 10.1093/omcr/omy077. eCollection 2018 Oct.
Rare and rarer: co-occurrence of stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy and Charles Bonnet syndromes.
Boyer PN1, Devlin M2, Boggild M2.
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Abstract
A 30-year-old man presented with new onset severe headache and homonymous hemianopia, with a subsequent seizure, on a background of a right parietal astrocytoma resected at age 5 with adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed post-surgical and radiotherapy changes only and a clinical diagnosis of Stroke-like Migraine Attacks after Radiation Therapy (SMART) syndrome was made. Vision subsequently recovered gradually over a 6-week period, however, during the recovery phase he reported well formed hallucinations in the affected hemi-field consisting of small mammals, particularly possums, which gradually became less distinct as vision recovered; a phenomenon which was felt likely to represent the Charles Bonnet syndrome.
PMID:
30323940
PMCID:
PMC6172599
DOI:
10.1093/omcr/omy077