Acute cerebellar ataxia associated with enteric fever in a child: a case report [PDF]
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2013 Enteric fever is a common infectious disease of the tropical world. Characteristic presenting features include fever, relative bradycardia, diarrhea or constipation, and abdominal pain. Central nervous system involvement is not rare and has a wide
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SARS-CoV-2 Infection of the Central Nervous System: A Case Report [PDF]
VirusesCentral nervous system (CNS) infections caused by SARS-CoV-2 are uncommon. This case report describes the clinical progression of a 92-year-old female who developed a persistent neuroinfection associated with SARS-CoV-2.
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in severe leptospirosis: A case report [PDF]
IDCasesIntroduction: Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinico-radiological entity with diverse aetiologies. It presents with headache, altered sensorium, seizures, and visual disturbances and is characterised by symmetrical white matter ...
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Aseptic Meningitis and White Matter Disease in Childhood-Onset Neuropsychiatric Lupus [PDF]
Case Reports in RheumatologyWe reported a 10-year-old girl who had an atypical demyelinating disease as the presentation of her neuropsychiatric lupus. The patient had a 4-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus which had been on remission until she presented with fever and ...
Mei Lam Hsu, Kwai Yu Winnie Chan
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Intrathecal synthesis of complement components C3c and C4 in the central nervous system infections with signs of the acute serous meningitis syndrome [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2002 Two hundred and ten patients with meningismus and the infections of the central nervous system (CNS) with the clinical symptoms and signs of the acute serous meningitis syndrome, were divided into groups according to etiology (enterovirus meningitis ...
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Pituitary apoplexy in an adolescent male with macroprolactinoma presenting as middle cerebral artery territory infarction [PDF]
Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2022 Pituitary apoplexy typically presents with acute headache, vomiting, visual disturbance, and confusion. Herein, we report a rare presentation of ischemic stroke due to pituitary apoplexy.
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First case of meningoencephalitis and bacteraemia with Flavobacterium lindanitolerans
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2023 Purpose: Flavobacterium lindanitolerans is an environmental Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod which is usually not considered to be a human pathogen. Isolation from human clinical samples has been described only once.
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Aspergillus fumigatus meningitis in an immunocompetent young woman
Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2020 Aspergillus meningitis is a rare clinical entity that is much more frequently observed among immunocompetent patients. Here we present the case of a 28 year old immunocompetent lady with Aspergillus fumigatus meningitis possibly following spinal ...
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background Bacillus cereus sometimes causes central nervous system infection, especially in compromised hosts. In cases of meningitis arising during neutropenia, CSF abnormalities tend to be subtle and can be easily overlooked, and mortality rate is high.
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage presenting as TIA in the MCA territory [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2018 A 71-year-old woman treated with Lisinopril for HBP, was brought to our department for right-sided paresthesias, dysarthria and right-sided motor deficits. Onset of symptoms was sudden, about one hour prior to hospitalization.
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