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Diffuse Lewy body disease with immediate post-partum onset
K Opeskin1, M Gonzales, R Borenstein
1Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology.
Acta Neuropathologica
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A previously healthy 27 years-old woman developed psychotic depression and parkinsonism shortly after delivery of her first child. Her neuropsychiatric symptoms progressed to dementia and she died 5 years after onset. Diffuse Lewy body disease was found at autopsy. This case is unusual because of the early age of onset and the abrupt development of symptoms following pregnancy.