Bilateral Cerebral Infarctions and Intracardiac Thrombus in a Young Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patient

Yanan Qiao; Manabu Inoue; Muneaki Kikuno; Dantao Peng; Zunjing Liu; Kazunori Toyoda

doi:10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2018.02.031

Bilateral Cerebral Infarctions and Intracardiac Thrombus in a Young Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patient

J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2018 Jul;27(7):e150-e152. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2018.02.031. Epub 2018 Mar 20.

Authors

Yanan Qiao¹, Manabu Inoue², Muneaki Kikuno³, Dantao Peng¹, Zunjing Liu¹, Kazunori Toyoda³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing China.
² Department of Cerebrovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan. Electronic address: gakinoue@ncvc.go.jp.
³ Department of Cerebrovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.

PMID: 29571762
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2018.02.031

Abstract

A 31-year-old man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy was admitted to our center, having infarctions in bilateral cerebral hemispheres and an occluded right middle cerebral artery. His right middle cerebral artery was spontaneous recanalization on the next day, and thrombus in the left ventricle vanished on the eighth day after giving warfarin.

Keywords: Duchenne muscular dystrophy; anticoagulation; ejection fraction; stroke; thrombus.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Anticoagulants / therapeutic use
Cerebral Infarction / complications*
Cerebral Infarction / diagnostic imaging
Cerebral Infarction / drug therapy
Heart Diseases / complications*
Heart Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Heart Diseases / drug therapy
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Male
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / complications*
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / diagnostic imaging
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / drug therapy
Thrombosis / complications*
Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging
Thrombosis / drug therapy
Warfarin / therapeutic use

Substances

Anticoagulants
Warfarin