Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhu, Ren-jing
• Lv, Zhi-su
• Shan, Chun-lei
• Xu, Ming-wei
• Luo, Ben-yan

Titel

Pure word deafness associated with extrapontine myelinolysis

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Zhejiang University. B. Science, 2010-11, Vol.11 (11), p.842-847

Ort / Verlag

Heidelberg: SP Zhejiang University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Extrapontine myelinolysis and pure word deafness are very uncommon disorders. Here, we report a case of a 19-year-old woman who suffered from osmotic demyelination syndrome with coincidence of typical pure word deafness. As a consequence of rapid correction of hyponatremia, the patient demonstrated an initial onset of cortical deafness, and then progressed to generalized auditory agnosia, which eventually developed into confined verbal auditory agnosia （pure word deafness）. Bilateral extrapontine myelinolysis was confirmed using brain magnetic resonance imaging. This case suggests that verbal and nonverbal stimuli may involve separate thalamocortical pathways.