Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis presenting as mania

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare, invariably fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system developing after measles infection. Besides neurological symptoms as initial presenting symptoms, rare reports of its presentation with pure psychiatric symptoms have been report...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Ashish, Khandelwal, Ashish, Jain, Manish, Jiloha, R. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3141475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21808475
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.82801
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author Aggarwal, Ashish
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description Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare, invariably fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system developing after measles infection. Besides neurological symptoms as initial presenting symptoms, rare reports of its presentation with pure psychiatric symptoms have been reported. We here report a case of 14 year old male who initially presented with manic symptoms and then subsequently diagnosed to be suffering from SSPE. Improtance of ruling our organic conditions is emphasized.
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spelling pubmed-31414752011-08-01 Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis presenting as mania Aggarwal, Ashish Khandelwal, Ashish Jain, Manish Jiloha, R. C. Ann Indian Acad Neurol Case Report Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare, invariably fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system developing after measles infection. Besides neurological symptoms as initial presenting symptoms, rare reports of its presentation with pure psychiatric symptoms have been reported. We here report a case of 14 year old male who initially presented with manic symptoms and then subsequently diagnosed to be suffering from SSPE. Improtance of ruling our organic conditions is emphasized. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3141475/ /pubmed/21808475 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.82801 Text en © Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3141475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21808475
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.82801
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