Lesions more than cerebellum in a puerpera of acute cerebellitis: concurrent encephalitis, not a subtype of ADEM

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: We report a puerpera who has acute-onset ataxia with fever, headache, convulsions, and altered mental status. She had a good response to antivirus treatment and low-dose steroid. Acute cerebellitis was the tentative diagnosis. But concurrent encephalitis was proposed with multi...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yong-Qing, Chen, Dan, Zou, Ya-Fen, Huang, Ming, Jia, Xiao-Yan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
Materias:
Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25356202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4
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Sumario:KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: We report a puerpera who has acute-onset ataxia with fever, headache, convulsions, and altered mental status. She had a good response to antivirus treatment and low-dose steroid. Acute cerebellitis was the tentative diagnosis. But concurrent encephalitis was proposed with multiple lesions beyond cerebellum.

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