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Epidemiology of Cerebellar Ataxia on the Etiological Basis: A Cross Sectional Study

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Cerebellar ataxias are a heterogenous group of disorders, clinically and etiologically, that result in considerable health burden. Finding out about the various etiologies, and their relative prevalences in the population suffering from cerebellar ataxia helps the clinician to perform a better management, in treatment process. This is a cross sectional study designed to estimate the relative prevalence of each etiologic factor. One-hundred and thirty-five patients ,in the range of 6 to 73 years from march 1993 to march1999, were classified in different groups on the basis of etiological findings. Relative prevalence of each of the etiological factors , common accompanying disorders besides ataxia in the patients,CT and MRI changes,and CSF alterations are studied and recorded. A widely spread age group, and the extended number of the cases under study, are the advantages of the current study over the previously reported case series. Among the etiologic groups, multiple sclerosis, cerebrovascular accidents and hereditary cerebellar ataxia, were the most common etiologic factors associated with cerebellar ataxia respectively.

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Cerebellar ataxia etiology epidemiology
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Nafissi S, Maghdouri A, Sikaroodi H, Hosseini SS. Epidemiology of Cerebellar Ataxia on the Etiological Basis: A Cross Sectional Study. Acta Med Iran. 1;47(6):465-468.