Wilson?s disease presenting as rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a possible window to early treatment

Objective To describe characteristics of REM sleep behavior disorder in Wilson’s disease. Method Questionnaire-based interviews (patients and relatives), neurological examinations, two-week prospective dream-diary, video-polysomnography, transcranial sonography, MRI. Results Four Wilson’s diseas...

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Main Authors: Gotthard G. Tribl, Edson Bor-Seng-Shu, Mateus C. Trindade, Leandro T. Lucato, Manoel J. Teixeira, Egberto R. Barbosa
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Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2014-09-01
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2014000900653&lng=en&tlng=en
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author Gotthard G. Tribl
Edson Bor-Seng-Shu
Mateus C. Trindade
Leandro T. Lucato
Manoel J. Teixeira
Egberto R. Barbosa
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Edson Bor-Seng-Shu
Mateus C. Trindade
Leandro T. Lucato
Manoel J. Teixeira
Egberto R. Barbosa
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description Objective To describe characteristics of REM sleep behavior disorder in Wilson’s disease. Method Questionnaire-based interviews (patients and relatives), neurological examinations, two-week prospective dream-diary, video-polysomnography, transcranial sonography, MRI. Results Four Wilson’s disease cases with REM sleep behavior disorder were described; three had REM sleep behavior disorder as initial symptom. All showed mesencephalic tegmental/tectal sonographic hyperechogenicities and two presented ponto-mesencephalic tegmental MRI hyperintensities. Conclusion This first description of REM sleep behavior disorder in Wilson’s disease in literature documents REM sleep behavior disorder as a possible presenting symptom of Wilson’s disease and adds further evidence to the parallelism of Parkinson’s disease and Wilson’s disease in phenotype and brainstem topography, which ought to be further studied. REM sleep behavior disorder has prognostic relevance for neurodegeneration in α-synucleinopathies. In Wilson’s disease, usefulness of early diagnosis and treatment are already well established. REM sleep behavior disorder in Wilson’s disease offers a possible theoretical model for potential early treatment in this extrapyramidal and brainstem paradigm syndrome, previewing the possibility of neuroprotective treatment for REM sleep behavior disorder in “pre-clinical” Parkinson’s disease.
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spelling doaj-art-2b39a103bd214419a22f23dae5dbff252025-08-20T02:01:33ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272014-09-0172965365810.1590/0004-282X20140118S0004-282X2014000900653Wilson?s disease presenting as rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a possible window to early treatmentGotthard G. TriblEdson Bor-Seng-ShuMateus C. TrindadeLeandro T. LucatoManoel J. TeixeiraEgberto R. BarbosaObjective To describe characteristics of REM sleep behavior disorder in Wilson’s disease. Method Questionnaire-based interviews (patients and relatives), neurological examinations, two-week prospective dream-diary, video-polysomnography, transcranial sonography, MRI. Results Four Wilson’s disease cases with REM sleep behavior disorder were described; three had REM sleep behavior disorder as initial symptom. All showed mesencephalic tegmental/tectal sonographic hyperechogenicities and two presented ponto-mesencephalic tegmental MRI hyperintensities. Conclusion This first description of REM sleep behavior disorder in Wilson’s disease in literature documents REM sleep behavior disorder as a possible presenting symptom of Wilson’s disease and adds further evidence to the parallelism of Parkinson’s disease and Wilson’s disease in phenotype and brainstem topography, which ought to be further studied. REM sleep behavior disorder has prognostic relevance for neurodegeneration in α-synucleinopathies. In Wilson’s disease, usefulness of early diagnosis and treatment are already well established. REM sleep behavior disorder in Wilson’s disease offers a possible theoretical model for potential early treatment in this extrapyramidal and brainstem paradigm syndrome, previewing the possibility of neuroprotective treatment for REM sleep behavior disorder in “pre-clinical” Parkinson’s disease.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2014000900653&lng=en&tlng=endoença de Wilsonsíndromes parkinsonianastranstorno comportamental do sono REMparassoniastegmento
spellingShingle Gotthard G. Tribl
Edson Bor-Seng-Shu
Mateus C. Trindade
Leandro T. Lucato
Manoel J. Teixeira
Egberto R. Barbosa
Wilson?s disease presenting as rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a possible window to early treatment
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
doença de Wilson
síndromes parkinsonianas
transtorno comportamental do sono REM
parassonias
tegmento
title Wilson?s disease presenting as rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a possible window to early treatment
title_full Wilson?s disease presenting as rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a possible window to early treatment
title_fullStr Wilson?s disease presenting as rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a possible window to early treatment
title_full_unstemmed Wilson?s disease presenting as rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a possible window to early treatment
title_short Wilson?s disease presenting as rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a possible window to early treatment
title_sort wilson s disease presenting as rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder a possible window to early treatment
topic doença de Wilson
síndromes parkinsonianas
transtorno comportamental do sono REM
parassonias
tegmento
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2014000900653&lng=en&tlng=en
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