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Case Reports
. 1998 Nov;51(5):1478-80.
doi: 10.1212/wnl.51.5.1478.

Periodic downbeat nystagmus

R Du Pasquier  1 , F Vingerhoets, A B Safran, T Landis
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Case Reports

Periodic downbeat nystagmus

R Du Pasquier et al. Neurology. 1998 Nov.

Abstract

The authors observed a periodic downbeat nystagmus with a cycle of 3 minutes 30 seconds, beating downward for a period of 90 seconds every 2 minutes. It lasted 86 hours in a patient with severe hypomagnesemia associated with complications from scleroderma. There was no lesion on brain imaging, and an EEG performed during the nystagmus was normal, indicating that the most likely explanation for this periodic nystagmus is metabolic. This form of nystagmus may have resulted from severe hypomagnesemia, possibly associated with thiamine deficiency.

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