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Diffuse Lewy body disease with immediate post-partum onset

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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.

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  1. Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology, Melbourne, Australia

    Kenneth Opeskin & Ross Anderson

  2. Neuropathology Research Laboratory, Department of Anatomical Pathology, the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

    Michael Gonzales

  3. Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Australia

    Ruth Borenstein

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Opeskin, K., Gonzales, M., Borenstein, R. et al. Diffuse Lewy body disease with immediate post-partum onset. Acta Neuropathol 85, 213–216 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00227770

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