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
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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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author Ibrahim, Wanis H.
Elalamy, Osama R.
Doiphode, Sanjay H.
Mobyaed, Hassan
Darweesh, Adham
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Elalamy, Osama R.
Doiphode, Sanjay H.
Mobyaed, Hassan
Darweesh, Adham
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description 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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spelling pubmed-30667782011-04-11 Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis Ibrahim, Wanis H. Elalamy, Osama R. Doiphode, Sanjay H. Mobyaed, Hassan Darweesh, Adham Libyan J Med Case Report 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. CoAction Publishing 2010-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3066778/ /pubmed/21483588 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ljm.v5i0.4862 Text en © 2010 Wanis H. Ibrahim et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ibrahim, Wanis H.
Elalamy, Osama R.
Doiphode, Sanjay H.
Mobyaed, Hassan
Darweesh, Adham
Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis
title Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis
title_full Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis
title_fullStr Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis
title_full_unstemmed Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis
title_short Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis
title_sort acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis
topic Case Report
url 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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