Iyer Rajesh Shankar, Wattamwar Pandurang, Thomas Bejoy
Department of Neurology, KG Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Department of Neurology, United CIIGMA Hospitals, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Jul 27;2017:bcr-2017-220348. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-220348.
Holmes' tremor is a low-frequency hand tremor and has varying amplitude at different phases of motion. It is usually unilateral and does not respond satisfactorily to drugs and thus considered irreversible. Structural lesions in the thalamus and brainstem or cerebellum are usually responsible for Holmes' tremor. We present a 23-year-old woman who presented with unilateral Holmes' tremor. She also had hypersomnolence and headache in the sitting posture. Her brain imaging showed brain sagging and deep brain swelling due to spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH). She was managed conservatively and had a total clinical and radiological recovery. The brain sagging with the consequent distortion of the midbrain and diencephalon was responsible for this clinical presentation. SIH may be considered as one of the reversible causes of Holmes' tremor.
霍姆斯震颤是一种低频手部震颤,在运动的不同阶段振幅各异。它通常为单侧性,对药物治疗反应欠佳,因此被认为是不可逆的。丘脑、脑干或小脑的结构性病变通常是霍姆斯震颤的病因。我们报告一名23岁女性,她表现为单侧霍姆斯震颤。她在坐位时还伴有嗜睡和头痛。她的脑部影像学检查显示,由于自发性颅内低压(SIH)导致脑下垂和深部脑肿胀。她接受了保守治疗,临床和影像学表现完全恢复。脑下垂以及随之而来的中脑和间脑扭曲是导致该临床表现的原因。SIH可能被视为霍姆斯震颤的可逆病因之一。