Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in an infant with incontinentia pigmenti

Brain and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 625-628

  Matsumoto, Naoya ^a   Takahashi, Satoru ^b   Toriumi, Naohisa ^a   Sarashina, Takeo ^a   Makita, Yoshio ^b   Tachibana, Yukiteru ^a   Fujieda, Kenji ^b  

^a Abashiri Kosei Hospital   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; Incontinentia pigmenti; Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI; INFANT; JAPANESE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; POSTINFECTION ENCEPHALITIS; SEIZURE; SKIN BIOPSY;

CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURES;

EID: 67651210863     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2008.08.010     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Smahi A., Courtois G., Vabres P., Yamaoka S., Heuertz S., Munnich A., et al. Genomic rearrangement in NEMO impairs NF-κB activation and is a cause of incontinentia pigmenti: the international incontinentia pigmenti (IP) consortium. Nature 405 (2000) 466-472
2. Hadj-Rabia S., Froidevaux D., Bodak N., Hamel-Teillac D., Smahi A., Touil Y., et al. Clinical study of 40 cases of incontinentia pigmenti. Arch Dermatol 139 (2003) 1163-1170
3. Brunquell P.J. Recurrent encephalomyelitis associated with incontinentia pigmenti. Pediatr Neurol 3 (1987) 174-177
4. Mangano S., and Barbagallo A. Incontinentia pigmenti: clinical and neuroradiologic features. Brain Dev 15 (1993) 362-366
5. Pellegrino R.J., and Shah A.J. Vascular occlusion associated with incontinentia pigmenti. Pediatr Neurol 10 (1994) 73-74
6. Bardaro T., Falco G., Sparago A., Mercadante V., Gean Molins E., Tarantino E., et al. Two cases of misinterpretation of molecular results in incontinentia pigmenti, and a PCR-based method to discriminate NEMO/IKKgamma gene deletion. Hum Mutat 21 (2003) 8-11
7. Steffann J., Raclin V., Smahi A., Woffendin H., Munnich A., Kenwrick S.J., et al. A novel PCR approach for prenatal detection of the common NEMO rearrangement in incontinentia pigmenti. Prenat Diagn 24 (2004) 384-388
8. Balasubramanya K.S., Kovoor J.M., Jayakumar P.N., Ravishankar S., Kamble R.B., Panicker J., et al. Diffusion-weighted imaging and proton MR spectroscopy in the characterization of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Neuroradiology 49 (2007) 177-183
9. Abele-Horn M., Franck W., Busch U., Nitschko H., Roos R., and Heesemann J. Transverse myelitis associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Clin Infect Dis 26 (1998) 909-912