Fulminant subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in association with pregnancy
I. Wirguin, I. Steiner, D. Kidron, T. Brenner, S. Udem, B. Rager and O. Abramsky
Department of Neurology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
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.
