A Case of Early Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presented as Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

A 7.5 years girl presented with myoclonic jerks with prolonged duration coming progressively at shorter intervals for last six moinths. There was declining academic performances. The dystonic, dyskinetic movements and ataxia were there for last three months. The stages were progressing too rapidly....

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Autores principales: Bhattacharyya, Ranjan, Mukherjee, Bhaskar, Bhattacharyya, Sumita
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5733434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284817
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.219642
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author Bhattacharyya, Ranjan
Mukherjee, Bhaskar
Bhattacharyya, Sumita
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description A 7.5 years girl presented with myoclonic jerks with prolonged duration coming progressively at shorter intervals for last six moinths. There was declining academic performances. The dystonic, dyskinetic movements and ataxia were there for last three months. The stages were progressing too rapidly. IgG antibody titre to measles virus was found to be positive with EEG changes which confirms diagnosis. SSPE at so early age with atypical presentation is unique in this indexed case.
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spelling pubmed-57334342017-12-28 A Case of Early Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presented as Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Bhattacharyya, Ranjan Mukherjee, Bhaskar Bhattacharyya, Sumita Indian J Psychol Med Case Report A 7.5 years girl presented with myoclonic jerks with prolonged duration coming progressively at shorter intervals for last six moinths. There was declining academic performances. The dystonic, dyskinetic movements and ataxia were there for last three months. The stages were progressing too rapidly. IgG antibody titre to measles virus was found to be positive with EEG changes which confirms diagnosis. SSPE at so early age with atypical presentation is unique in this indexed case. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5733434/ /pubmed/29284817 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.219642 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Psychiatric Society 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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A Case of Early Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presented as Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
title A Case of Early Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presented as Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
title_full A Case of Early Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presented as Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
title_fullStr A Case of Early Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presented as Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Early Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presented as Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
title_short A Case of Early Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presented as Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
title_sort case of early onset subacute sclerosing panencephalitis presented as juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5733434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284817
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.219642
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