Bilateral abducens nerve palsy in an infant case of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Sixth (abducens) nerve palsy (ANP) is far less frequent in children and has not been reported as a sign of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). We present an infant case of ADEM with bilateral abducens nerve palsy (BANP). CASE PRESENTATION: We report one case of BANP in a 15-mont...

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Autores principales: Yang, Zhiliang, Sun, Guilian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27782818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-016-0365-3
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description BACKGROUND: Sixth (abducens) nerve palsy (ANP) is far less frequent in children and has not been reported as a sign of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). We present an infant case of ADEM with bilateral abducens nerve palsy (BANP). CASE PRESENTATION: We report one case of BANP in a 15-month-old boy of fulminant ADEM. The patient underwent physical examinations and brain MRI scan three times during about six months follow-up. The patient had BANP and developmental regression when he regained consciousness from a coma, and the signs had persisted for 6-months. CONCLUSIONS: BANP can be a symptom of ADEM.
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spelling pubmed-50807222016-10-31 Bilateral abducens nerve palsy in an infant case of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report Yang, Zhiliang Sun, Guilian BMC Ophthalmol Case Report BACKGROUND: Sixth (abducens) nerve palsy (ANP) is far less frequent in children and has not been reported as a sign of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). We present an infant case of ADEM with bilateral abducens nerve palsy (BANP). CASE PRESENTATION: We report one case of BANP in a 15-month-old boy of fulminant ADEM. The patient underwent physical examinations and brain MRI scan three times during about six months follow-up. The patient had BANP and developmental regression when he regained consciousness from a coma, and the signs had persisted for 6-months. CONCLUSIONS: BANP can be a symptom of ADEM. BioMed Central 2016-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5080722/ /pubmed/27782818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-016-0365-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Sun, Guilian
Bilateral abducens nerve palsy in an infant case of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report
title Bilateral abducens nerve palsy in an infant case of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report
title_full Bilateral abducens nerve palsy in an infant case of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report
title_fullStr Bilateral abducens nerve palsy in an infant case of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral abducens nerve palsy in an infant case of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report
title_short Bilateral abducens nerve palsy in an infant case of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report
title_sort bilateral abducens nerve palsy in an infant case of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27782818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-016-0365-3
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