Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis presenting as acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: A case report

A 22-year-old Australian woman with atypical subacute sclerosing panencephalitis diagnosed at postmortem

“…Another unusual feature of this patient was the rapid clinical course. About 10% of patients with SSPE follow an acute course, and acute cases are known to diverge from the classical clinical stages, and may lack both myoclonus and periodic EEG abnormalities, [12][13][14] similar to the present patient. Other atypical clinical presentations of SSPE include seizures and focal neurological deficits.…”

Nocardia cyriacigeorgica abscess of the conus medullaris in an immunocompetent host

“…Another unusual feature of this patient was the rapid clinical course. About 10% of patients with SSPE follow an acute course, and acute cases are known to diverge from the classical clinical stages, and may lack both myoclonus and periodic EEG abnormalities, [12][13][14] similar to the present patient. Other atypical clinical presentations of SSPE include seizures and focal neurological deficits.…”

Fulminant subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: Report of a case and review of literature

“…Fulminant SSPE has been defined as development of significant (at least 66%) neurological disability within three months of first neurologic symptom or a severe neurologic disability exceeding 90% within six months of disease onset in previous literature [8]. On Medline search using the word fulminant and acute SSPE we could find 32 patients with fulminant SSPE [5,7,[9][10][11][12]; of them 20 were males and the median age of disease onset was 12 years. The presenting symptoms in these patients were mental changes in 16, visual loss in 12, motor deficit in 2, and myoclonus in 14.…”