Acute-onset Flu Encephalopathy in an Adolescent Female

Flu encephalopathy is a rare and poorly understood complication of the influenza virus. In children, it presents most commonly in the 6-18 months age range and most often in the first 26 hours of flu symptoms. Here, we present a case of a 13-year old black female who presented with acute-onset encep...

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Autores principales: Ballard, Peter K, O'Hara, Sean M, Simon, Erica M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6581386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31259103
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4485
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description Flu encephalopathy is a rare and poorly understood complication of the influenza virus. In children, it presents most commonly in the 6-18 months age range and most often in the first 26 hours of flu symptoms. Here, we present a case of a 13-year old black female who presented with acute-onset encephalopathy two weeks into flu symptoms. As we begin this flu season, this case serves as a reminder that flu encephalopathy should be on the differential for acute-onset altered mental status.
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spelling pubmed-65813862019-06-28 Acute-onset Flu Encephalopathy in an Adolescent Female Ballard, Peter K O'Hara, Sean M Simon, Erica M Cureus Emergency Medicine Flu encephalopathy is a rare and poorly understood complication of the influenza virus. In children, it presents most commonly in the 6-18 months age range and most often in the first 26 hours of flu symptoms. Here, we present a case of a 13-year old black female who presented with acute-onset encephalopathy two weeks into flu symptoms. As we begin this flu season, this case serves as a reminder that flu encephalopathy should be on the differential for acute-onset altered mental status. Cureus 2019-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6581386/ /pubmed/31259103 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4485 Text en Copyright © 2019, Ballard et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Ballard, Peter K
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title_short Acute-onset Flu Encephalopathy in an Adolescent Female
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6581386/
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