Recurrent Disseminated Vasculomyelinopathy

Charles M. Poser, Gustavo Román, E. Stanley Emery

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Abstract

The monosymptomatic (recurrent infantile hemiplegia) and the polysymptomatic forms of disseminated vasculomyelinopathy that follow various infections and antigenic challenge to the nervous system were seen in two cases. These cases emphasize the importance of vasculopathy as the initial and obligatory component of the postinfectious and postimmunization neurologic syndromes as well as the clinical and pathological variability of the secondary effects on the nervous system. Recurrent infantile hemiplegia occurred in the first patient. In the second patient, after two episodes of postinfectious myelinoclastic encephalopathy, concurrent acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalopathy and an acute Guillain-Barre syndrome following swine flu vaccination developed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)166-170
Number of pages5
JournalArchives of neurology
Volume35
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1978
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
  • Clinical Neurology

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