Eight-and-a-half syndrome secondary to lupus vasculopathy. A case presentation
Keywords:
Eight-and-a-half syndrome, medial longitudinal fascicle, paramedian pontine reticular formation, pontine infarction, lupus vasculopathy.Abstract
Introduction: The diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who develop a neuropsychiatric involvement represents one of the biggest challenges due to the heterogeneity of the ways in which it can occur and the absence of diagnostic criteria.
Objective: To recognize the clinical forms of presentation of neurophthalmological syndromes that express pontine involvement.
Case presentation: Seventy-one-year-old man with history of systemic lupus erythematosus with neuropsychiatric involvement who acutely develops an emetic episode in the course of a hypertensive emergency followed by a paralysis of the horizontal gaze to the left, a right-sided posterior internuclear ophthalmoplegia and a left facial palsy. In the neuroimaging, a multifocal involvement with marked pontine damage is observed.
Conclusions: Recognizing the clinical forms of presentation of these rare neurophthalmological disorders that generally occur in an acute or subacute form allows the neurologist to perform the topographic diagnosis of the lesion at a protuberancial level with high precision from the time when the patient attends the Emergency Department and reduces the possible differential diagnoses to a vascular, demyelinating or occupational etiology of space.
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