Acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an adult as a complication of H1N1 infection

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BJR Case Rep. 2019 Nov 15;5(4):20190028. doi: 10.1259/bjrcr.20190028. eCollection 2019 Dec. Acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an adult as a complication of H1N1 infection.

Abdelrahman HS¹, Safwat AM², Alsagheir MM³.
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Abstract

Acute necrotizing encephalitis is one of the recognized influenza-associated encephalopathies which has a characteristic multifocal symmetric involvement of the thalami bilaterally with only very few cases were reported in adults. We present a case of a young adult female who was presented with post-H1N1 Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy with full neurological recovery after proper clinicoradiological diagnosis and rapid treatment with steroids and intravenous immunoglobulins.
? 2019 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology.


PMID: 31938561 PMCID: PMC6945259 DOI: 10.1259/bjrcr.20190028
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