التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Childhood Rubella Encephalitis: Diagnosis, Management, and Outcome. |
| المؤلفون: |
Chaari, Anis, Bahloul, Mabrouk, Berrajah, Lamia, Kahla, Sahar Ben, Gharbi, Nourhene, Karray, Hela, Bouaziz, Mounir |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Child Neurology; Jan2014, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p49-53, 5p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ENCEPHALITIS, INTENSIVE care units, UNIVERSITY hospitals, RUBELLA, MAGNETIC resonance imaging, PEDIATRICS |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
SAFAQIS (Tunisia) |
| مستخلص: |
We to report clinical biological and radiologic features of rubella encephalitis in childhood and assess its prognostic impact. Our retrospective study was conducted in an intensive care unit of a university hospital in Sfax, Tunisia. Twenty-one children (age range, 1-15 years) were included. Median age was 9 years (lower and upper quartiles, 7-11 years). On admission, generalized maculopapular eruption was found in 17 cases (81%). Median Glasgow Coma Scale score was 7 (lower and upper quartiles, 7-8). Twenty patients (95.2%) experienced at least 1 episode of seizures. Sixteen patients (76.2%) developed a status epilepticus. The result for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay detecting anti-rubella immunoglobulin (M) was positive in the serum and in the cerebrospinal fluid samples for all our patients. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain was performed on admission for 3 patients (14.3%) and within a median of 4 days (lower and upper quartiles, 2-6 days) for 8 patients. The test was normal in 6 cases. Two deaths were recorded (9.5%). Survivors had no neurological sequelae 6 months after intensive care unit discharge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
