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Editor, Senior Moderator
Neurocase. 2013 May 22. [Epub ahead of print]
Influenza-associated global amnesia and hippocampal imaging abnormality.
Lopez J, Lomen-Hoerth C, Deutsch GK, Kerchner GA, Koshy A.
Source
a Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences , Stanford University School of Medicine , Stanford , CA , USA.
Abstract
The acute phase of influenza infection is rarely associated with significant cognitive dysfunction. We describe a case of a 24 year-old man who developed global amnesia in the acute phase of influenza A infection. His deficits resolved over the course of several weeks. Transient abnormalities of diffusion and T2-weighted imaging were seen in the bilateral hippocampi. We review cerebral complications of influenza and discuss the possible role of previously proposed mechanisms in our patient's case.
PMID:
23697757
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23697757
Influenza-associated global amnesia and hippocampal imaging abnormality.
Lopez J, Lomen-Hoerth C, Deutsch GK, Kerchner GA, Koshy A.
Source
a Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences , Stanford University School of Medicine , Stanford , CA , USA.
Abstract
The acute phase of influenza infection is rarely associated with significant cognitive dysfunction. We describe a case of a 24 year-old man who developed global amnesia in the acute phase of influenza A infection. His deficits resolved over the course of several weeks. Transient abnormalities of diffusion and T2-weighted imaging were seen in the bilateral hippocampi. We review cerebral complications of influenza and discuss the possible role of previously proposed mechanisms in our patient's case.
PMID:
23697757
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23697757