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BUSTAMANTE, C. Gladys. Ataxia Cerebelosa. Rev. Act. Clin. Med [online]. 2014, vol.45, pp. 2368-2372. ISSN 2304-3768.

ABSTRACT Cerebellar ataxia is a disease characterized by lack of coordination resulting from an alteration in the cerebellum , whose etiology has been attributed to a process of acute postinfectious cerebellitis and intoxication , leading to an acute disease , which in most often has a viral triggering . However, it has raised other etiologies for the presence of this box Clinical manifestations of cerebellar ataxia are characterized by the presence of sensory ataxia and dysmetria is common in childhood and is associated with nystagmus, disdiadococinecia, tremor and hypotonia. The gait disturbance is the same side of the lesion and the picture worsens with eye closure, also presenting hydrocephalus and sometimes fever. The group most affected by this condition are children under 5 years, mainly infectious etiology, so the treatment was seen primarily focused on the resolution of this picture. In other cases, the presence of different etiology, take specific therapeutic management in each case.

Palavras-chave : Ataxia; Dysmetria; Dysdiadochokinesia; Acute ataxia; Postinfectious cerebellitis.