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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2023

Case report: Clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion: an autopsy case.

Maho Hayashi, Midori Ueda, Koji Hayashi, Ei Kawahara, Shin-Ichiro Azuma, Asuka Suzuki, Yuka Nakaya, Rei Asano, Mamiko Sato, Toyoaki Miura and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maho Hayashi *Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Midori Ueda *Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Koji Hayashi *Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Ei Kawahara *Department of Pathology, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Shin-Ichiro AzumaDepartment of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Asuka SuzukiDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Yuka NakayaDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Rei AsanoDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Mamiko SatoDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Toyoaki MiuraDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Hiromi HayashiDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fukui General Hospital, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Kouji HayashiDepartment of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Science, Fukui Health Science University, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
Yasutaka KobayashiDepartment of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Science, Fukui Health Science University, Egami-cho, Fukui, Japan.
University of Fukui Hospital · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion is a clinicoradiological syndrome characterized by transient neuropsychiatric symptoms and hyperintensity of the splenium of the corpus callosum on diffusion-weighted MRI. Although intramyelinic edema and inflammatory cell infiltration can be predicted by MRI, the pathology of the splenium of the corpus callosum remains unknown. We encountered a case of clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion and hypoglycemia in a patient who died of sepsis, and an autopsy was performed. The postmortem pathological findings included intramyelinic edema, myelin pallor, loss of fibrous astrocytes, microglial reactions, and minimal lymphocytic infiltration in the parenchyma. Based on these findings, transient demyelination following cytotoxic edema in the splenium of corpus callosum was strongly considered a pathogenesis of "clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion" associated with hypoglycemia, and it could be generalized for the disease associated with the other causes. As cytotoxic edema could be the central pathology of the disease, the recently proposed term cytotoxic lesions of the corpus callosum may be applicable to this syndrome.

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autopsy: MRIclinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with reversible splenial lesionscorpus callosum spleniumcytotoxic edemahypoglycemia

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