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A Case of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6 with Its Initial Symptom of Episodic Ataxia-like Phenotype Haruo Shimazaki 1 , Koichi Nakao 1 , Kinya Ishikawa 2 , Yoshihisa Takiyama 2 , Imaharu Nakano 1 Keyword: spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 , α1A Ca channel subunit gene(CACNA1A) , episodic ataxia type 2 , magnetic resonance spectroscopy pp.63-67
Published Date 2006/1/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406100122
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We reported a Japanese case of spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6) with episodic ataxia type 2 (EA2) phenotype. A 28-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of episodic unsteadiness of gait and dysarthria for 4 years. Neurological examination revealed truncal ataxia and dysarthria during attacks, but no abnormal findings in interictal phases. A brain MRI showed no obvious cerebellar atrophy, whereas proton MR spectroscopy (1H-MRS) disclosed decrease of the N-acetylaspartate/ceatine (NAA/Cr) ratio in the cerebellar hemisphere. We identified the expanded 22 CAG repeats without a missense mutation in the CACNA1A gene. After one year from the discharge, her gait ataxia became gradually obvious even in the interictal phase. To our knowledge, although a few foreign papers had reported the SCA6 cases with EA2 phenotype, there is no particular report on such cases in Japan. 1H-MRS, in addition to CAG repeats analysis, might enable us to differentiate SCA6 from EA2, because the latter showed no decrease of NAA/Cr ratio in cerebellar hemisphere according to the previous reports.

(Received : July 4, 2005)


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