title: [Menetrier's disease: brain infarction as an unusual first symptom].
abstract: A 43-year-old patient was admitted to hospital with an apoplectic stroke caused by an angiographically confirmed partial stenosis of the arteria cerebri media branch. We diagnosed Ménétrier's disease, documented by gastroscopy and histology, after having eliminated other causes for the apoplexy. We suggest a direct causal relationship between the stroke and Ménétrier's disease, since high incidences of thromboembolic complications have been reported in association with this rare disease. After conservative therapy with H2-blockers, laboratory values returned to normal. In the two years following diagnosis, the patient reported no recurrence of neurologic complications.
authors: Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Abteilung V (Hämatologie/Onkologie und Rheumatologie), Heidelberg.
authors: L H
authors: LH
authors: Trümper
authors: H
authors: H
authors: von Baum
authors: H K
authors: HK
authors: Seitz
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Hunstein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005758:Gastritis, Hypertrophic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Morbus Ménétrier: Hirninfarkt als seltene Erstmanifestation.