A Case of West Nile Encephalitis That Develops into a Disease of Deep White Matter on MRI over a Two-Week Span

We present a case of serologically proved West Nile encephalitis. This patient had a normal MRI on admission. Given that the patient's clinical picture had worsened during her admission, a repeat MRI was performed, which demonstrated diffuse disease in the deep white matter of the brain. This i...

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Autores principales: Puchalski, Adam, Liu, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5039274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27703823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4389691
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description We present a case of serologically proved West Nile encephalitis. This patient had a normal MRI on admission. Given that the patient's clinical picture had worsened during her admission, a repeat MRI was performed, which demonstrated diffuse disease in the deep white matter of the brain. This is a case of West Nice encephalitis presenting as a disease of deep white matter that developed over a two-week span.
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spelling pubmed-50392742016-10-04 A Case of West Nile Encephalitis That Develops into a Disease of Deep White Matter on MRI over a Two-Week Span Puchalski, Adam Liu, Antonio Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report We present a case of serologically proved West Nile encephalitis. This patient had a normal MRI on admission. Given that the patient's clinical picture had worsened during her admission, a repeat MRI was performed, which demonstrated diffuse disease in the deep white matter of the brain. This is a case of West Nice encephalitis presenting as a disease of deep white matter that developed over a two-week span. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5039274/ /pubmed/27703823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4389691 Text en Copyright © 2016 A. Puchalski and A. Liu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title A Case of West Nile Encephalitis That Develops into a Disease of Deep White Matter on MRI over a Two-Week Span
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title_fullStr A Case of West Nile Encephalitis That Develops into a Disease of Deep White Matter on MRI over a Two-Week Span
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