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Pneumococcal Meningitis and Its Sequelae - A Devastating CNS Disease.
J Mother Child
July 2020
Clinic of Neurology of Children and Adolescents, Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland.
Introduction: In countries where Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine is used, Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in young children and notable cause of morbidity/mortality. The authors present material of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of patients with pneumococcal meningitis from archive of Department of Diagnostic Imaging of Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.
Materials And Methods: We performed 27 brain MRI scans and 1 follow-up computed tomography (CT) in 10 children (2 girls and 8 boys) aged from neonate to 5 years at disease onset with proven pneumococcal infection.
Paroxysmal Autonomic Instability with Dystonia after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y)
June 2020
Division of General Neurology and Ataxia Unit, Department of Neurology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, BR.
Background: Paroxysmal autonomic instability with dystonia (PAID) syndrome, a subset of dysautonomia, is characterized by paroxysms of marked agitation, diaphoresis, hyperthermia, hypertension, tachycardia and tachypnea accompanied by hypertonia and extensor posturing.
Case Report: We report a 52-year-old man who was severely brain injured and developed spastic tetraparesis with cognitive impairment. During his Intensive care unit stay and rehabilitation period, he presented with paroxysmal episodes of dystonic posturing accompanied by dysautonomia.
Medullary Infarction Leading to Locked-In Syndrome Following Lumbar Puncture in a Patient with Basilar Invagination.
World Neurosurg
May 2020
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Lumbar puncture is a common procedure that can be safely performed in most patients. Certain populations may have increased risk for complications following lumbar puncture, but the significance of basilar invagination is often underappreciated.
Case Description: A 45-year-old woman with basilar invagination received multiple lumbar punctures in the workup of acute meningitis.
[Tetraplegia revealing a severe pneumococcal meningomyelitis: about a case and literature review].
Pan Afr Med J
March 2016
Service d'Accueil des Urgences Médico-chirurgicales de l'Hôpital Militaire d'Instruction Mohammed V, Rabat, Maroc.
[Fatal acute polyradiculoneuritis following pneumococcal pneumonia].
Med Mal Infect
December 2013
Service de maladies infectieuses et tropicales, hôpital Bégin, 69, avenue de Paris, 94160 Saint-Mandé, France. Electronic address:
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