Encephalitis following Mycoplasma pneumonia (2007: 6b)

Termote, B; Demaerel, Philippe; Wilms, Guy; Dubois, Bénédicte

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“…In 74% of cases, there had been an infectious disease in the medical history of a patient a month before the onset of neurological disorders [5][6][7][8]. The following infections may be the triggering factors for ADEM: Viral factors (measles, rubella, mumps, parainfluenza viruses [9][10][11][12], hepatitis, influenza A and B [13,14], whooping cough, tetanus [3,15], Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus [16] and bacterial factors (Mycoplasma pneumoniae [17][18][19][20][21], Campylobacter [22][23][24], Borrelia Burgdogferi [4,25], Leptospira, Chlamydia, Legionella, Bhemolytic streptococcus group A [26 -28]. However, in most cases there is evidence of a nonspecific upper respiratory tract infection and there is no serologic evidence of pathogen [4,29,30].…”

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A General Assessment of the Functional Impact of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

Lobanova¹,

Myalovitska²

2015

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Introduction: Long-term disability in patients with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is caused not only by neurological deficiency, but also by the difficulties with social and psychological adaptation. Together with neurological condition, a very important role in clinical characteristics of the disease belongs to psychosocial disorders, as well as to patients' subjective perception of the disease symptoms that has the impact on their quality of life. Methods: We have examined 45 patients diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, 10 men and 35 women, aged 15-53 (average age 32±0.4). All the patients were being treated at the Kiev city centre of multiple sclerosis (Kiev city hospital number 4, Alexandrovskaya City Clinical Hospital, Kiev city, Ukraine) during 3 years. The diagnosis of ADEM was based on neurological examination, MRI of the brain and CSF analysis. The neurological status was assessed by Kurtzke an Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) and Functional Systems Points

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A General Assessment of the Functional Impact of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

Lobanova¹,

Myalovitska²

2015

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The Characteristics of Cognitive Functions in Patients with Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

Lobanova¹

2015

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Introduction:The clinical picture of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is characterized not only by a variety of neurological signs, but also by disorders of higher cortical functions. Disorders of higher cognitive functions often remain undetected during routine examination of patients and the use of specialized neuropsychological tests enables timely diagnosis of cognitive disorders. Methods: The assessment of cognitive impairment was carried out in 67 patients with ADEM (28 male and 39 female, aged 16 -50, mean age -31.6±2.3). All the patients were being treated at the Kiev city centre of multiple sclerosis (Ukraine). The diagnosis of ADEM was based on neurological examination, MRI of the brain and CSF analysis. The cognitive impairment in patients with ADEM was assessed during the first three days after the onset of the disease. The neurological status was assessed by Kurtzke an Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) and Functional Systems Scores (FSS). Patients performed neuropsychological tests that enabled evaluation of short-term and longterm visual and auditory memory, various parameters of attention as well as ability to concentrate, orientation in time and space. Results: The assessment of cognitive functions in patients with ADEM demonstrated impaired short-term and long-term memory indices according to "memorizing 10 words" test (34.6±1.5 words compared with control 42.7±1 words, P <0.001), verbal learning and delayed recall according to "California Verbal Learning Test "(12.3±1.9 words compared to control 14.6±1.1 words, P <0,01) and sustained attention and concentration according to "Symbol Digit Modalities Test "(54.5±10.2

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Encephalitis following Mycoplasma pneumonia (2007: 6b)

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A General Assessment of the Functional Impact of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

A General Assessment of the Functional Impact of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

The Characteristics of Cognitive Functions in Patients with Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

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