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Fulminant Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in Association With Pregnancy
Itzhak Wirguin, MD;
Israel Steiner, MD;
Daphne Kidron, MD;
Talma Brenner, PhD;
Steve Udem, MD;
Bracha Rager, PhD;
Oded Abramsky, MD, PhD
Arch Neurol. 1988;45(12):1324-1325.
Abstract
• Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis developed during pregnancy in a 27-year-old woman and immediately after delivery in an 18-year-old woman. In both, disease took an acute and fulminant course culminating in a vegetative state within several weeks. It is suggested that the relative older age of disease presentation and the unusually rapid neurologic deterioration were partially due to immunologic and hormonal alterations of pregnancy.
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neurology, Hadassah University Hospital and Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem (Drs Wirguin, Steiner, Kidron, Brenner, and Abramsky); the Department of Infectious Disease, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (Dr Udem); and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel (Dr Rager).
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 5, 1987.
Reprints not available.
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