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Stroke causes contraction of arrectors
BOSTON-When a man’s hair stands on end, it’s not a sign of stroke. Or it wasn’t till now.
A 60-year-old man treated at SUNY Stony Brook is the first to have pilomotor seizures after a stroke. Most of the 15 such seizure cases in the literature have been from brain cancer.
He had recurrent TIAs for two weeks before onset. Then for several days, as often as every 15 minutes, a left-posterior cerebral-artery infarct led to seizures marked by bilateral cutis anserina, piloerection, and horripilation. In all, there were 247 episodes treated by high-dose phenytoin (Dilantin, Parke-Davis), Drs. Mamie Lipari and Mary Andriola told the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society meeting here.
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