Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis After Plasmodium Vivax Infection: Case Report and Review of Literature

Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM) usually occurs after viral infections or vaccination. Its occurrence after Plasmodium vivax infection is extremely uncommon. We report the case of an 8-year-old girl who had choreo-athetoid movements and ataxia after recovery from P.vivax infection. Diagn...

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Autores principales: Sidhu, Jasmeet, Maheshwari, Anu, Gupta, Raju, Devgan, Veena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26266032
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/pr.2015.5859
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author Sidhu, Jasmeet
Maheshwari, Anu
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description Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM) usually occurs after viral infections or vaccination. Its occurrence after Plasmodium vivax infection is extremely uncommon. We report the case of an 8-year-old girl who had choreo-athetoid movements and ataxia after recovery from P.vivax infection. Diagnosis of ADEM was made on the basis of magnetic resonance imaging findings. The child responded to corticosteroids with complete neurological recovery.
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spelling pubmed-45086232015-08-11 Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis After Plasmodium Vivax Infection: Case Report and Review of Literature Sidhu, Jasmeet Maheshwari, Anu Gupta, Raju Devgan, Veena Pediatr Rep Case Report Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM) usually occurs after viral infections or vaccination. Its occurrence after Plasmodium vivax infection is extremely uncommon. We report the case of an 8-year-old girl who had choreo-athetoid movements and ataxia after recovery from P.vivax infection. Diagnosis of ADEM was made on the basis of magnetic resonance imaging findings. The child responded to corticosteroids with complete neurological recovery. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2015-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4508623/ /pubmed/26266032 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/pr.2015.5859 Text en ©Copyright J. Sidhu 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 Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis After Plasmodium Vivax Infection: Case Report and Review of Literature
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title_fullStr Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis After Plasmodium Vivax Infection: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis After Plasmodium Vivax Infection: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis After Plasmodium Vivax Infection: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after plasmodium vivax infection: case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508623/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/pr.2015.5859
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