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ArticleThe Neurohospitalist2020

Adult-Onset Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis With a 30-Year Latent Period.

Brandon B Holmes, Jessamyn Conell-Price, Collin J Kreple, Davin Ashraf, John Betjemann, Nicole Rosendale

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Article in The Neurohospitalist, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brandon B HolmesDepartment of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1153-840X
Jessamyn Conell-PriceDepartment of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Collin J KrepleDepartment of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Davin AshrafDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
John BetjemannDepartment of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Nicole RosendaleDepartment of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare progressive neuroinfectious disease due to a late complication of the measles virus. The hallmark clinical features of this disease include behavioral changes, myoclonus, dementia, visual disturbances, and pyramidal and extrapyramidal signs. The presence of characteristic high-amplitude periodic complexes on electroencephalography and raised antibody titers against measles in the cerebrospinal fluid help solidify the diagnosis. We present a case of a 40-year-old patient with SSPE who initially developed ophthalmologic manifestations 30 years after the primary measles infection. This case highlights both typical and atypical features of SSPE and provides a diagnostic framework for evaluating cases that fall outside of the standard scope of this disease.

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encephalitismeaslesneuroinfectionretinitisSSPEsubacute sclerosing panencephalitis

Identifiers

PMID32373277
PMCPMC7191669
OpenAlexW2969924974

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