Acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an adult as a complication of H1N1 infection

Acute necrotizing encephalitis is one of the recognized influenza-associated encephalopathies which has a characteristic multifocal symmetric involvement of the thalami bilaterally with only very few cases were reported in adults. We present a case of a young adult female who was presented with post...

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Autores principales: Abdelrahman, Heba S, Safwat, Ahmed M, Alsagheir, Mahmoud M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31938561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20190028
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Sumario:Acute necrotizing encephalitis is one of the recognized influenza-associated encephalopathies which has a characteristic multifocal symmetric involvement of the thalami bilaterally with only very few cases were reported in adults. We present a case of a young adult female who was presented with post-H1N1 Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy with full neurological recovery after proper clinicoradiological diagnosis and rapid treatment with steroids and intravenous immunoglobulins.

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