title: [Cerebellar hemorrhage and unilateral asterixis].
abstract: A hypertensive woman presented with asterixis ipsilateral to a cerebellar hemorrhage. Asterixis has not previously been described in association with a cerebellar lesion. The presence of asterixis in this patient may have been due to a reduction of afferent information through the loss of the dentato-thalamo-cortical input. Unilateral asterixis denotes a dysfunction of the mechanism underlying sustained muscular contraction and not a precise cerebral localisation.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine, Hôpital St-Luc et Université de Malte.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pullicino
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xuereb
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Farrugia
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000209:etiology*
vernacular_title: Hémorragie cérébelleuse et astérixis unilatéral.