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ArticleNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2009

Selective involvement of temporal regions in a case of flavivirus encephalitis.

Annamaria Russo, Elisabetta Farina, Loredana Nicoletti, Raffaello Nemni

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Article in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Annamaria RussoNeurorehabilitation Unit, IRCCS Santa Maria Nascente, Fondazione Don Gnocchi, Via Capecelatro 66, 20148, Milan, Italy. annamariarusso@hotmail.com
Elisabetta Farina
Loredana Nicoletti
Raffaello Nemni
Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation · ITIstituto Superiore di Sanità · IT

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Abstract

Clinical manifestations of flavivirus infection may be various, from unapparent to severe meningoencephalitis. Our patient, 2 weeks after returning home from a holiday at Elba Island, developed biphasic fever, later associated with nausea and vomiting and followed by incoming seizures responsive to thiopental sodium only. Brain MRI showed bilateral hyperintensity (T2) in amygdale, hippocampus, left insular and temporal inferior cortex. Standard and microbiological CSF examination was normal, but microbiological serum analysis showed seroconversion for flavivirus. The patient came to our observation 6 months after disease onset and at that time he was affected by frequent seizures and severe cognitive impairment with behavioural disturbances; the patient also showed distal weakness with footstepping. EEG showed bitemporal epileptic foci. During the following months, seizures greatly decreased and cognitive status improved in response to a complex antiepileptic therapy. Flavivirus encephalitis should be taken into account in the differential diagnosis of encephalitis selectively involving temporal lobes.

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ElectroencephalographyEncephalitis, ViralFlavivirus InfectionsHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedTemporal Lobe

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PMID19590822
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