Research
Silent Lacunary Brain Infarctions Associated with Left Ventricular Noncompaction and Idiopathic Epilepsy A Case Report
Non-compaction of the left ventricle is a rare cause of cardiomyopathy, sometimes with a family character that may complicate evolving with heart failure, heart rhythm disorders and systemic embolic events - including stroke. We present the case of a young patient in neurological dispensary for epilepsy where the neuroimaging evaluation of an acutely installed cephalalgia syndrome revealed multiple silent lacunar brain injuries. Paraclinic examinations of their etiology has led to the diagnosis of a non-compaction of the left ventricle, in this context the lacunar infarcts are considered embolic cerebral events with a cardiac starting point.
Grey Matter Focal Subcortical Heterothopia-A Case Report
The article presents the case of a 40-year old patient, diagnosed with partial epileptic seizures since he was one year old. He also presented a psychomotor delay and spastic left palsy. For a long time, the diagnosis was infant encephalopathy. In 2014, during an MRI investigation, a large, right-side, pseudo-tumoral, temporo-parietal heterothopia was found. This heterothopia also presented a posterior agenesis of the corpus callosum. The grey matter focal heterothopia explained the cause of the epileptic seizures.
Type 2 Neurofibromatosis in a Patient Originating in a Twin Pregnancy- Case Report
This case report discusses a 26 year old patient diagnosed with Type 2 Neurofibromatosis (NF), who has a twin sister. The patient exhibits infantile encephalopathy, mental retardation and type 2 NF, while her twin sister is perfectly healthy and does not exhibit any lesions on the neuroimaging examination.
Bourneville Tuberous Sclerosis- Difficulties of the Diagnosis- a Case Report
The diagnosis of Bourneville Tuberous Sclerosisthe „ forme frusteâ€- was established for a sixteen years old teen-ager, due to some typical cutaneous lesions, of angiofibromas type, wich appeared at puberty, lesions suggestive for the diagnosis. The imagery investigations confirmed the existence of the brain hamartomas and of the angiomyolipomas of the kidneys, supporting the diagnosis of Bourneville disease.
