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A Case of Tuberculosis-Associated Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Seven-Month-Old Infant
A seven-month-old previously healthy female infant presented with acute onset encephalopathy and left focal weakness in the setting of three months of non-productive cough. She was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), and neuroimaging showed multifocal non-enhancing T2 hyperintensities in the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8351760/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34381655 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16299 |
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author | Yang, Jennifer H Vuong, Kim T Moodley, Amaran Chuang, Nathaniel A Chen, Dillon Y |
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description | A seven-month-old previously healthy female infant presented with acute onset encephalopathy and left focal weakness in the setting of three months of non-productive cough. She was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), and neuroimaging showed multifocal non-enhancing T2 hyperintensities in the brain and longitudinal T2 hyperintensity in the spinal cord consistent with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). However, her cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) did not show evidence of TB infection. She was treated with high-dose steroids for five days with a steroid taper along with antitubercular medications with a remarkable recovery in gross motor function. This case suggests a previously unreported association between TB and an immune-mediated demyelinating syndrome in children that is clinically distinct from other more common forms of TB-associated central nervous system (CNS) complications. |
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spelling | pubmed-83517602021-08-10 A Case of Tuberculosis-Associated Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Seven-Month-Old Infant Yang, Jennifer H Vuong, Kim T Moodley, Amaran Chuang, Nathaniel A Chen, Dillon Y Cureus Neurology A seven-month-old previously healthy female infant presented with acute onset encephalopathy and left focal weakness in the setting of three months of non-productive cough. She was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), and neuroimaging showed multifocal non-enhancing T2 hyperintensities in the brain and longitudinal T2 hyperintensity in the spinal cord consistent with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). However, her cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) did not show evidence of TB infection. She was treated with high-dose steroids for five days with a steroid taper along with antitubercular medications with a remarkable recovery in gross motor function. This case suggests a previously unreported association between TB and an immune-mediated demyelinating syndrome in children that is clinically distinct from other more common forms of TB-associated central nervous system (CNS) complications. Cureus 2021-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8351760/ /pubmed/34381655 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16299 Text en Copyright © 2021, Yang et al. https://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. |
spellingShingle | Neurology Yang, Jennifer H Vuong, Kim T Moodley, Amaran Chuang, Nathaniel A Chen, Dillon Y A Case of Tuberculosis-Associated Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Seven-Month-Old Infant |
title | A Case of Tuberculosis-Associated Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Seven-Month-Old Infant |
title_full | A Case of Tuberculosis-Associated Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Seven-Month-Old Infant |
title_fullStr | A Case of Tuberculosis-Associated Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Seven-Month-Old Infant |
title_full_unstemmed | A Case of Tuberculosis-Associated Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Seven-Month-Old Infant |
title_short | A Case of Tuberculosis-Associated Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Seven-Month-Old Infant |
title_sort | case of tuberculosis-associated acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in a seven-month-old infant |
topic | Neurology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8351760/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34381655 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16299 |
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