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Mumps virus is one of the most common causes of viral meningitis. Although brain involvement has been observed in a low proportion of children with mumps meningitis, a pure form of mumps encephalitis is extremely uncommon in the adult. A 23 year-old man presented with a rapidly evolving syndrome of cephalalgia , vomiting, mutism, disorders of gait, somnolence and dystonic movements. The electroencephalogram showed a diffusely slowed background activity. The CSF contained no cells, but the total protein concentration was elevated. The patient recovered without sequelae, but severe intellectual and motor disturbances persisted during more than a month. Serological studies showed an increase of blood IgM mumps-specific antibodies. We conclude that mumps encephalitis, although infrequent, should be considered among viral diseases that mimic herpes simplex encephalitis in the adulthood.
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PMID:[Mumps encephalitis in adulthood]. 205

All cases of mumps meningoencephalitis diagnosed at our institution during the past 15 years were reviewed. There were 24 cases, 16 between 1973 and 1977, 3 between 1978 and 1985 and 5 in 1986 to 1988. Four of the recent cases occurred 19 to 26 days after receipt of a new mumps vaccine (Urabe Am 9 strain) released in Canada in 1986. The remaining 20 cases were clustered in winter and spring. The average age was 6.2 years and the ratio of males to females was 5:1. Clinical presentations were fever (90%), vomiting (90%), meningismus (70%), headache (65%), parotitis (50%) and seizures (30%). The mean cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count was 513/mm3 (lymphocyte predominance); 55% of patients had a cerebrospinal fluid protein level of greater than 0.4 g/liter, and the cerebrospinal fluid:blood glucose ratio was greater than 0.4 in all. Two patients had adverse sequelae. The clinical and laboratory features of these cases were not significantly different from the vaccine-associated cases.
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PMID:Clinical and epidemiologic features of mumps meningoencephalitis and possible vaccine-related disease. 259 49

Acute viral and other infectious causes of encephalitis usually produce fever, headache, stiff neck and alterations in consciousness, focal neurologic signs and seizures. A large number of viral and nonviral agents can cause encephalitis. Arthropod-borne viruses peak in summer, the tick-borne infections occur in early summer, enterovirus infections in later summer and mumps in the winter and spring.
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PMID:[Viral encephalitis]. 269 65

Ten to 28 days after hospital admission cell count and/or total protein concentration showed no decrease or further increase in 33 children (25 boys, 8 girls) between 2 to 15-years of age who suffered from acute aseptic meningitis (causative agents: mumps virus in 9 children, enterovirus in 5 children). Three of these children had cerebral palsy as a possible predisposing factor. The onset of prolonged aseptic meningitis was protracted in some children. At hospital admission the clinical features of this disorder differed not from those in uncomplicated acute aseptic meningitis. In 4 children a one-sided and in 4 patients a doublesided peripheral facial paralysis occurred as a transitory complication. One child showed transient arterial hypertension. EEG was normal in most of the children or revealed a slight general slowing only. Apart from a slight enlargement of the ventricles in 3 children cerebral CT showed no abnormality. Complaints like vertigo, headache, and vomiting persisted for weeks or months in part of the children. During the course of the disease CSF reflected two different reactions: 1. further increase of total protein in combination with a minimal cellular response, affecting 2-10 years old boys and girls equally; protein electrophoresis revealing the pattern of severe blood-CSF barrier disturbance, 2. persistant elevation or further increase of both cell count and total protein occurring nearly exclusively in 6-15 years old boys, associated with the CSF-protein pattern of severe blood-CSF barrier disturbance and of oligoclonal gamma-fractions.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Prolonged nonbacterial meningitis: clinical aspects and cerebrospinal fluid findings]. 651 22

The AA describe 82 cases of complications occurred during an outbreak of mumps in 1980-81. Forty-two cases of meningitis, 4 of pancreatitis, 2 of orchitis and 2 cases of encefalitis occurred. All patients had eventual, complete recovery. The other cases are not specific complications. The treatment was almost entirely symptomatic. The headache of meningitis was relieved by a lumbar poncture. In the epicrisis of the AA these cases of complications have some importance in relation to the opportunity of getting herd vaccination against mumps.
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PMID:[Considerations on the complications of epidemic parotitis]. 668 Oct 62

A 36-year-old man was admitted to our university hospital, complaining of acute hearing loss of the right ear, which was his only hearing ear. He had developed complete deafness due to mumps in the left ear at the age of 26. Before admission, he had been diagnosed as having rubella infection. He noticed hearing loss in the right ear two days after disappearance of macular rash. Headache, nausea and vertigo were not present. Three weeks after the onset of hearing loss, he was admitted to our university hospital. Pure tone audiometry revealed sensorineural hearing loss; a mild ascending audiometric curve with a marked loss at 4,000 Hz and 8,000 Hz. SISI test was positive. Caloric stimulation (ice water 10 ml/10 s) to the right ear demonstrated a normal response. Rubella hemagglutination antibody titer was 512. Specific IgG antibody was over 3,200. Specific IgM antibody was positive (7.01 Enzyme Immunoassay). The data indicated recent infection with rubella. He was given betamethasone for 14 days. Pure tone audiometry showed hearing improvement.
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PMID:Unilateral hearing loss following rubella infection in an adult. 807 85

Nine patients below 20 years of age (4 males and 5 females), who were diagnosed to have acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) by clinical findings and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), were reviewed retrospectively. They ranged from 4 months to 20 years of age with an average of 8.6 years. Seven patients (78%) received neurophysiological studies, which included electroencephalography, multimodality evoked potentials (EPs), nerve conduction velocity and/or F-wave measurement. The presentation symptoms were mainly headache, vomiting, consciousness change and motor deficits. Seven (78%) of nine patients had symptoms preceded by fever or upper respiratory tract infections; one (11%) was preceded by trivalent mumps, measles, rubella vaccination and no definite predisposing factor was found in another. Computed tomography (CT) scans were abnormal in five (71 %) of seven children, while MRI showed multiple lesions in seven (78%) of nine children. The lesions in MRI were mainly in the brainstem (n = 6), basal ganglion (n = 5), thalamus (n = 4), periventricular white matter (n = 4) and cerebellum (n = 4). EPs disclosed spinal cord involvement in all patients who received the examination. Peripheral neuropathy was disclosed in one patient. It was concluded that associated radiculoneuropathy is possible in patients with ADEM. Both MRI and neurophysiologic studies are complementary for diagnosis of ADEM.
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PMID:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in children: clinical, neuroimaging and neurophysiologic studies. 875 75

The patient is a 10-year-old male who experienced somnolence and incomplete quadriplegia after headache and vomiting, without exanthema, for 3 days. The clinical course and magnetic resonance imaging findings of the brain and spinal cord were compatible with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The serologic examination revealed that the patient had rubeola because titers of IgM and IgG antibody to measles virus measured by enzyme immunoassay were 0.91 and 40 (cutoff = 0.80 and 2), respectively, at 5 weeks after the onset, the IgM titer had become negative (0.56), and the IgG titer had decreased to 17.7 at 13 weeks after the onset. Because the patient had received a measles-mumps-rubella vaccine at 12 months of age, the acute disseminated encephalomyelitis was thought to be attributed to the modified measles resulting from measles vaccine failure.
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PMID:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis with probable measles vaccine failure. 1037 90

Fifty cases of postinfectious encephalomyelitis admitted to our Pediatric Department during the period 1980 to 1997 were consecutively collected and reviewed. There were 28 males and 22 females. The age of onset ranged from 9 months to 14 years. The antecedent infections included measles (6 cases), rubella (5 cases), mumps (4 cases), chicken pox (4 cases), Epstein-Barr virus infection (11 cases), mycoplasma infection (6 cases), and unknown etiology (14 cases). The cessation of measles, rubella, and mumps as causes for encephalomyelitis in our patients corresponds with the introduction of a measles-mumps-rubella nationwide vaccination program in Taiwan commencing in 1992. The main clinical symptoms were fever, headache, and/or vomiting, seizure, and motor weakness. The presenting signs included altered consciousness, meningeal signs, cranial nerve palsy, brainstem signs, involuntary movement, and cerebellar signs. Computed tomography scans were abnormal for 14 (56%) of 25 patients studied, whereas magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) disclosed lesions in 14 (82%) of 17 patients, with abnormal signals in various parts of the cerebral hemisphere, as well as in the basal ganglion, diencephalon, midbrain, brain stem, and cerebellum. Of the three patients with negative MRI findings, an abnormal finding on somatosensory evoked potential was noted for one patient, and a focal decrease in tracer uptake on single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) was found for the other two patients. This study demonstrates that the causative agents of postinfectious encephalomyelitis in Taiwan have changed from those of traditional exanthematous diseases to nonspecific respiratory infections and suggests that this may also be the case in other parts of the world. MRI remains the imaging method of choice, whereas other neurofunctional studies such as evoked potentials and SPECT are complementary for the diagnosis.
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PMID:Postinfectious encephalomyelitis: etiologic and diagnostic trends. 1106 80

Mankind has always given himself means to fight pain by using at first, means offered to him by his environment particularly the plants. African pharmacopoeia is rich of thousand of plants. It changes in term of its ecosystem and its vegetation. Decocted leaves of pilostigma reticulatum (nguiguis in ouolof) are used in western Africa, because of its analgesic properties in case of "borom bop" literally meaning headache associated to odontalgias and mumps. In our study we used lyophilisate obtained from dry leaves of the plant which has been used for experimentation while the decocted dry leaves have been used for clinical application. So, it appeared that leaves of pilostigma reticulatum are almost atoxic when administrated by oral tract (DL50 = 17 g/kg) according to GLEASON classification which recognizes as atoxic every substance having a DL50 higher to 15 g of lyophilisate by kilogram of corporal weight. Elsewhere the study of the peripheric analgesic activity (according to the acetic acid test) has shown a very significant peripheric analgesia since the dose of 750 mg/kg which climbs with it. The clinical survey carried out at the dental community center of Pikine Icotaf based on the usual method of the utilization of the decocted (as mouth rinse) has shown that, this plant procures pain sedation in 97% of the patients having undergone dental avulsion and in 78% of the cases of desmondontal syndromes. This inaugural report must be continued in order to certify the pharmacologic or toxic effects of that plant and define clinical doses from experimental doses we have cleared.
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PMID:[Analgesic effect of Pilostigma reticulatum (nguiguis)]. 1137 39


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