Hemiplegia due to hypoglycaemia followed by haemicorea after correction of glycaemic values

Jie Wang; Ting-Liang Gong; Cheng-De Pan

doi:10.1007/s10072-022-06461-6

Hemiplegia due to hypoglycaemia followed by haemicorea after correction of glycaemic values

Neurol Sci. 2023 Mar;44(3):1125-1126. doi: 10.1007/s10072-022-06461-6. Epub 2022 Nov 12.

Authors

Jie Wang¹, Ting-Liang Gong², Cheng-De Pan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Banan Hospital Affiliated of Chongqing Medical University, Banan District, No. 659, Yunan Road, Longzhouwan Street, Chongqing, China. xqwj456@sohu.com.
² Department of Neurology, Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 6, Seventh Branch Road, Panxi, Jiangbei District, Chongqing, China.
³ Department of Neurology, Banan Hospital Affiliated of Chongqing Medical University, Banan District, No. 659, Yunan Road, Longzhouwan Street, Chongqing, China.

PMID: 36370205
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-022-06461-6

Abstract

A 69-year-old man suffered from hemiplegia of the left limb due to hypoglycaemia. After 3 h of oral supplementation with sugar water, the patient recovered from hemiplegia but then presented symptoms of haemichorea. To our knowledge, a case of abnormal glucose metabolism complicated with two types of motor disturbance has not been reported previously.

Keywords: Chorea; Hypoglycaemia; Motor disturbance.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Blood Glucose / metabolism
Hemiplegia* / etiology
Humans
Hypoglycemia* / complications
Hypoglycemia* / diagnosis
Male

Substances

Blood Glucose