infectious mononucleosis/癲癇性発作

The presence of periodic EEG complexes in patients with an acute viral encephalitis is generally held to suggest that infection is due to herpes simplex. We now report a patient with clinical and laboratory findings of infectious mononucleosis, and neurologic involvement manifested by lymphocyte

The well-recognised neurological complications of infectious mononucleosis include lymphocytic meningitis, encephalomyelitis with convulsions, cranial and peripheral nerve palsies, Guillain-Barré Syndrome and hemiparesis. Cerebellar involvement is very rare, particularly in females and children. We

We present a patient who developed a mononucleosis syndrome 6 weeks after starting phenytoin therapy for a seizure disorder. Improvement followed initial discontinuation of the phenytoin, but near-fatal hepatic necrosis resulted from intravenous phenytoin rechallenge. A serious reaction with a 18%

A 19-year-old man with posttraumatic seizures under good control with phenytoin, 500 mg/day, presented with three seizures. His blood level of phenytoin, previously in a therapeutic range, was 4.2 microgram/ml. No systemic or laboratory evidence of infectious mononucleosis was found. Ten days later,

A comatose patient with seizures and focal neurological signs was given vidarabine because herpes simplex encephalitis was a likely diagnosis. Investigations showed that the illness was due to infectious mononucleosis. Although recovery is usual in infectious mononucleosis encephalitis, the complete

Diphenylhydantoin-induced hepatitis and mononucleosis are uncommon in children. The occurrence of these two diseases in the same individual, with progression to hepatic failure is rare and has not been reported in infants. This report represents a 6-month-old male infant who developed an infectious

Two months following an Epstein-Barr virus infection, a 17-year-old white female presented with seizures, intermittent visual changes, and altered mental status. Magnetic resonance imaging showed white matter changes of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis with a predilection for posterior cerebral

BACKGROUND Complications of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection are diverse and include a number of neurologic manifestations such as meningitis, meningoencephalitis, cerebellitis, cranial neuritis and others. In general encephalitis caused by EBV in pediatric patients has been considered a