Dengue fever as a cause of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM)

Journal of Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-187

  Chowdhury, Rajib Nayan ^a   Siddiqui, M R ^a   Mahbub, M S ^a   Hasan, O S I ^b   Talukder, A ^b   Nabi, S ^a   Miah, T ^a  

^a DMC   (Bangladesh)

^b Dhaka Community Medical College   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis; Dengue fever; Neurological complication

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENOBARBITAL; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONVULSION; DENGUE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW BACK PAIN; MELENA; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTLESSNESS; RETROORBITAL PAIN; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URINALYSIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VOMITING;

EID: 80052143125     PISSN: 19979797     EISSN: 20755384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/jom.v12i2.8428     Document Type: Article

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