DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i01.017

Pages: 54-55

Cerebellar ataxia implies changes in motor coordination and balance. An etiological study is difficult given the countless differential diagnoses. Autoimmune causes, namely due to anti-GAD antibodies, represent only around 2% of progressive cerebellar ataxia in adults [1]. The case presented is of a woman with a history of epilepsy and alopecia universalis that began to show a condition of cerebellar ataxia whose study revealed an autoimmune ataxia with positive Anti-GAD 65 antibodies. Therapeutics with intravenous immunoglobulin enabled partial improvement of the symptoms.