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Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Cerebellar ataxia and neuropathy as presenting features of hepatitis-B related cirrhosis and portal hypertension
  1. Arunmozhi Elavarasi,
  2. Deepa Dash,
  3. Manjari Tripathi,
  4. Rohit Bhatia
  1. Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Deepa Dash, drddash{at}yahoo.com

Summary

Adult onset cerebellar dysfunction with neuropathy is a commonly encountered condition and is usually due to genetic causes such as spinocerebellar ataxia, gluten ataxia, alcohol related, toxic, degenerative, immune mediated, paraneoplastic causes and so on.⇓ Ataxia and neuropathy as presenting features of hepatitis-B related liver disease are very rare and have not been reported so far.

  • hepatitis b
  • portal hypertension
  • cirrhosis
  • movement disorders (other than parkinsons)
  • peripheral nerve disease

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221912

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors AE contributed to the diagnosis, management and in writing the manuscript. DD contributed to the diagnosis, management and in writing the manuscript. MT contributed to the diagnosis and management of the case. RB contributed to the diagnosis and management of the case.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.