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White matter disorder due to carbon monoxide toxicity

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White matter disorder due to carbon monoxide toxicity – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1529465062

Patients with initial transient choreiform movements may develop progressive parkinsonian features, progressive dystonia and urinary incontinence. A delayed encephalopathy may develop after a period of apparent partial or complete recovery with cognitive and personality impairment with memory dysfunction, apathy, mutism and the progressive development of vegetative features. MRI shows diffuse symmetrical high intensity white matter change involving caudate and bilateral pallidal necrosis .