Fahr's syndrome: local inflammatory factors in the pathogenesis of calcification.
Three cases of Fahr's syndrome are described. All patients had disturbances of calcium metabolism and had had a meningoencephalitis in childhood. It is suggested that gliovascular changes, induced by cerebral inflammation, can later facilitate the occurrence of calcification of the striopallidodentate system when abnormality of calcium metabolism develops.
D000328:Adult; D001480:Basal Ganglia Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000473:pathology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000097:blood; D002529:Cerebellar Nuclei / Q000473:pathology; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000473:pathology; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D005917:Globus Pallidus / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007011:Hypoparathyroidism / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D011547:Pseudohypoparathyroidism / Q000150:complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D002118:Calcium