Postprandial Limb-shaking: an Unusual Presentation of Transient Cerebral Ischemia

Overview

Journal Clin Auton Res

Date 2006 Jun 10

PMID 16763755

Citations 1

Authors

William P Cheshire Jr

James F Meschia

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

We describe a 61-year-old woman with complete occlusion of the left carotid artery who presented with shaking of the right limbs after eating. She was found to have profound postprandial hypotension, and the episodes were interpreted as an unusual transient ischemic attack.

Citing Articles

Transient Hemichorea-hemiballism Induced by a Combination of Postprandial Hypotension and Severe Stenosis of the Innominate Artery Concomitant with Left Carotid Occlusion.

Okune S, Hayakawa M, Hino T, Hiramine T, Akimoto T, Sato M Intern Med. 2023; 63(4):577-582.

PMID: 37407451 PMC: 10937142. DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.0633-22.

References

Fujimura J, Camilleri M, Low P, Novak V, Novak P, Opfer-Gehrking T . Effect of perturbations and a meal on superior mesenteric artery flow in patients with orthostatic hypotension. J Auton Nerv Syst. 1998; 67(1-2):15-23. DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1838(97)00087-8. View

Kamata T, Yokota T, Furukawa T, Tsukagoshi H . Cerebral ischemic attack caused by postprandial hypotension. Stroke. 1994; 25(2):511-3. DOI: 10.1161/01.str.25.2.511. View

Klempen N, Janardhan V, Schwartz R, Stieg P . Shaking limb transient ischemic attacks: unusual presentation of carotid artery occlusive disease: report of two cases. Neurosurgery. 2002; 51(2):483-7; discussion 487. View

Mathias C . Effect of meal size on post-prandial blood pressure and on postural hypotension in primary autonomic failure. Clin Auton Res. 1996; 6(2):111-4. DOI: 10.1007/BF02291232. View

Wada Y, Kita Y, Yamamoto T . [Orthostatic hypotension with repeated bilateral limb shaking and metamorphopsia. A case of hemodynamic transient ischemic attacks]. Rinsho Shinkeigaku. 2000; 40(6):582-5. View