Debaleena Mukherjee, Subhankar Chatterjee, Peyalee Sarkar, Ritwik Ghosh, Shambaditya Das, Biman Kanti Ray, Alak Pandit, Julián Benito-León, Souvik Dubey
This video abstract delves into the expanded definition of diabetic striatopathy, linked initially to hyperglycemia-induced choreoballism and striatal hyperintensity on magnetic resonance imaging, but now recognized to encompass a broader range of acute onset, non-choreoballistic movement disorders in diabetes mellitus, including tremors, hemifacial spasm, parkinsonism, different types of myoclonus, dystonia, restless leg syndrome, ataxia, and dyskinesias. We report the case of a 45-year-old female patient with type-2 diabetes mellitus who developed propriospinal myoclonus, characterized by painless, involuntary jerky movements of the bilateral lower limbs in a supine position after admission for suspected rhino-orbital mucormycosis...
2023: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements