title: Fahr's Disease with Seizure Presentation.
abstract: Fahr's disease or Fahr's syndrome is a rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by abnormal symmetrical calcifications of the basal ganglia, thalami, sub-cortical hemispheric white matter and deep cerebellar nuclei. It can be idiopathic or associated with an endocrinopathy, frequently with parathyroid disorder. Clinical spectrum of the disease is wide ranging from neurological features like seizure, syncope, stroke like events, extra-pyramidal symptoms often combined with frontal sub-cortical pattern of behavioural dysfunction and psychiatric symptoms such as psychosis, mood disorder and dementia. Diagnosis is based on the clinical features, progressive neurological dysfunction, absence of biochemical abnormality and characteristic radiological imaging.
authors.affiliation: Asst. Prof.
authors.lastname: Rangaswamy
authors.affiliation: Sr. Resident.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ranjith
authors.affiliation: Asst. Prof.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vikas
authors.affiliation: Post Graduate, Dept. of Medicine, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysore, Karnataka.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Santosh
mesh_terms: D001480:Basal Ganglia Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology