Symptomatic generalized epilepsy after HHV6 posttransplant acute limbic encephalitis in children

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Howell, Katherine B ^a   Tiedemann, Karin ^a   Haeusler, Gabrielle ^a   MacKay, Mark T ^a   Kornberg, Andrew J ^a,b   Freeman, Jeremy L ^a   Harvey, A Simon ^a,b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human herpesvirus 6; Limbic encephalitis; Symptomatic generalized epilepsy

Indexed keywords

FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OLIGOCLONAL BAND;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DYSAUTONOMIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HYPERTENSION; HYPONATREMIA; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTTRANSPLANT ACUTE LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 85027921595     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03494.x     Document Type: Article

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