Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Good Choice for Acute Cerebellar Ataxia Associated with Varicella

Postinfectious cerebellar ataxia is the most common cause of acute ataxia in childhood. The most frequently associated viral agent is varicella. Acute cerebellar ataxia is considered benign, and its symptoms usually diminish within several weeks. We describe a 5-year-old boy who developed gait disor...

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Autores principales: Kılavuz, Fatma G, Ekici, Arzu, Onur, Hatice, Ekici, Deniz, Orcan, Cengiz G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30937103
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_79_18
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author Kılavuz, Fatma G
Ekici, Arzu
Onur, Hatice
Ekici, Deniz
Orcan, Cengiz G.
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description Postinfectious cerebellar ataxia is the most common cause of acute ataxia in childhood. The most frequently associated viral agent is varicella. Acute cerebellar ataxia is considered benign, and its symptoms usually diminish within several weeks. We describe a 5-year-old boy who developed gait disorder and garble speech 2 weeks after chicken pox and who was successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulin.
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spelling pubmed-64136012019-04-01 Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Good Choice for Acute Cerebellar Ataxia Associated with Varicella Kılavuz, Fatma G Ekici, Arzu Onur, Hatice Ekici, Deniz Orcan, Cengiz G. J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Postinfectious cerebellar ataxia is the most common cause of acute ataxia in childhood. The most frequently associated viral agent is varicella. Acute cerebellar ataxia is considered benign, and its symptoms usually diminish within several weeks. We describe a 5-year-old boy who developed gait disorder and garble speech 2 weeks after chicken pox and who was successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulin. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6413601/ /pubmed/30937103 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_79_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Kılavuz, Fatma G
Ekici, Arzu
Onur, Hatice
Ekici, Deniz
Orcan, Cengiz G.
Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Good Choice for Acute Cerebellar Ataxia Associated with Varicella
title Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Good Choice for Acute Cerebellar Ataxia Associated with Varicella
title_full Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Good Choice for Acute Cerebellar Ataxia Associated with Varicella
title_fullStr Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Good Choice for Acute Cerebellar Ataxia Associated with Varicella
title_full_unstemmed Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Good Choice for Acute Cerebellar Ataxia Associated with Varicella
title_short Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Good Choice for Acute Cerebellar Ataxia Associated with Varicella
title_sort intravenous immunoglobulin: a good choice for acute cerebellar ataxia associated with varicella
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30937103
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_79_18
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