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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-69452592020-01-14 Acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an adult as a complication of H1N1 infection Abdelrahman, Heba S Safwat, Ahmed M Alsagheir, Mahmoud M BJR Case Rep Case Report 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. The British Institute of Radiology. 2019-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6945259/ /pubmed/31938561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20190028 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an adult as a complication of H1N1 infection
title_full_unstemmed Acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an adult as a complication of H1N1 infection
title_short Acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an adult as a complication of H1N1 infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945259/
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