Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis

Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia is a very rare manifestation of meningococcal meningitis, with only a few cases reported in the literature. In almost all previously reported cases, other clinical manifestations of meningitis, such as fever, headache, and neck stiffness preceded acute myelopa...

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Autores principales: Ibrahim, Wanis H., Elalamy, Osama R., Doiphode, Sanjay H., Mobyaed, Hassan, Darweesh, Adham
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483588
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ljm.v5i0.4862
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Sumario:Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia is a very rare manifestation of meningococcal meningitis, with only a few cases reported in the literature. In almost all previously reported cases, other clinical manifestations of meningitis, such as fever, headache, and neck stiffness preceded acute myelopathy. In this paper, we report a case of acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis, in the absence of other clinical manifestations of meningitis.

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