Nature clinical practice. Neurology 2009-Mar
Fatal Epstein-Barr virus encephalitis in a 12-year-old child: an underappreciated neurological complication?
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Mots clés
Abstrait
BACKGROUND
A 12-year-old boy presented to a community hospital with fever, malaise and fatigue. A polymerase chain reaction test of the cerebrospinal fluid was positive for Epstein-Barr virus. Despite intensive care treatment and antiviral drugs, the patient died 1 month after his initial presentation.
METHODS
Physical examination, polymerase chain reaction analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid, brain MRI, immunohistochemistry and molecular biological investigations of postmortem brain samples.
METHODS
Epstein-Barr Virus encephalitis.
RESULTS
Aciclovir, intensive care treatment with intubation, sedation, antiepileptic drugs.
