myelitis/headache

BACKGROUND Cluster headache (CH) is characterized by attacks of severe periorbital pain associated with autonomic symptoms. As with other forms of primary headache, structural lesions should be excluded, particularly if the headache presents with an atypical pattern. METHODS We report a 41-year-old

Behçet's disease is a chronic, relapsing inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. Neuro-Behçet's disease (NBD) occurs in approximately 5 to 49% of patients with Behçet's disease. Spinal cord involvement is very rare in NBD. In this article, we report a 22-year-old male patient of NBD with

Myelitis of the spinal cord is an uncommon presentation of disseminated coccidioidomycosis. Most infected patients present subclinically, but patients, especially those who are immunocompromised, may progress to disseminated disease. We present a 50-year-old immunocompetent patient with no

A 21-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of frontal headache, low-grade fever and convulsion. The patient had long been in a close contact with a dog. Neurologic examination revealed meningeal irritation signs and cerebellar ataxia. Slight leukocytosis with an increased rate of

A 60-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of pyrexia, headache, gait disturbance, and sensory disturbance in the lower part of the body four days after she received an epidural block for postherpetic neuralgia. Neurological tests revealed neck stiffness, flaccid paraparesis in the

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is an infectious encephalitis prevalent in Asia. It usually presents with fever, headache, convulsions and extrapyramidal symptoms. Limbic system involvement and hypothermia though common in autoimmune encephalitis have never been reported in JE. We report a case of an

The authors report two cases of transverse myelitis due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae occurring during a recent acute infection due to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The clinical picture included weakness of the legs, bladder dysfunction, fever, headache and in one case, a mild confusional state. Magnetic

Background and aims - Description of two cases of rare intravascular large B-cell lymphoma and secondary T-cell lymphoma diagnosed postmortem, that manifested clinically as longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM). We discuss causes of diagnostic difficulties, deceptive radiological and

Japanese encephalitis, an inflammatory brain disease prevalent in Southeast Asia, usually presented with fever, headache, convulsions, brain stem signs with pyramidal and extrapyramidal features, and altered sensorium. Acute transverse myelitis, as the initial manifestation of Japanese encephalitis,

OBJECTIVE To report a case of transverse myelitis following inadvertent dural puncture and iatrogenic pneumocephalus and any possible causal relationship is explored. METHODS A 32-yr-old primigravida developed a severe headache associated with pneumocephalus following accidental dural puncture when

OBJECTIVE Occipital neuralgia is a common form of headache that is characterized by paroxysmal severe lancinating pain in the occipital nerve distribution. METHODS The exact pathophysiology is still not fully understood and occipital neuralgia often develops spontaneously. There are no specific

BACKGROUND Enteroviral infections can cause acute flaccid paralysis secondary to anterior myelitis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is important in the diagnosis of this potentially devastating pediatric disease. Before the 2014 outbreak of Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), the virus was considered a

Context Scrub typhus is an acute febrile disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. The disease can usually involve the lungs, heart, liver, spleen and brain through hematogenous dissemination. However, very rarely, acute transverse myelitis in the spinal cord develops from scrub typhus. We present a

Lupus-related transverse myelitis is a rare but serious complication. A 25-year-old Japanese woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was admitted because of numbness of the face and left upper extremity, headache, and intermittent fever. Six days later, she developed tetraplegia. MRI of the

A 39-year-old female with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) presented with fever, headaches and rash and was treated with empiric antibiotics for a presumable meningitis. However, cerebrospinal fluid turned out to be sterile and fever persisted with onset of hyporeflexive paraparesis with sensory