Comparative quantitative clinical, neuroimaging, and functional profiles in children with acute flaccid myelitis at acute and convalescent stages of disease

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 366-375

  Gordon Lipkin, Eliza ^a,b   Muñoz, Laura S ^a   Klein, Jessica L ^c   Dean, Janet ^b   Izbudak, Izlem ^a   Pardo, Carlos A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAY MATTER; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MYELITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85053460888     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.14030     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Aliabadi N, Messacar K, Pastula DM, et al. Enterovirus D68 infection in children with acute flaccid myelitis, Colorado, USA, 2014. Emerg Infect Dis 2016; 22: 1387–94
2. Messacar K, Schreiner TL, Maloney JA, et al. A cluster of acute flaccid paralysis and cranial nerve dysfunction temporally associated with an outbreak of enterovirus D68 in children in Colorado, USA. Lancet 2015; 385: 1662–71
3. Greninger AL, Naccache SN, Messacar K, et al. A novel outbreak enterovirus D68 strain associated with acute flaccid myelitis cases in the USA (2012-14): a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Infect Dis 2015; 15: 671–82
4. Ayscue P, Van Haren K, Sheriff H, et al. Acute flaccid paralysis with anterior myelitis — California, June 2012–June 2014. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2014; 63: 903–6
5. de Quadros CA, Hersh BS, Olivé JM, Andrus JK, da Silveira CM, Carrasco PA. Eradication of wild poliovirus from the Americas: acute flaccid paralysis surveillance, 1988–1995. J Infect Dis 1997; 175(Suppl. 1): S37–42
6. Andersen EW, Kornberg AJ, Freeman JL, Leventer RJ, Ryan MM. Acute flaccid myelitis in childhood: a retrospective cohort study. Eur J Neurol 2017; 24: 1077–83
7. Ruggieri V, Paz MI, Peretti MG, et al. Enterovirus D68 infection in a cluster of children with acute flaccid myelitis, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016. Eur J Paediatr Neurol 2017; 21: 884–90
8. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Enterovirus detections associated with severe neurological symptoms in children and adults in European countries, 8 August 2016. Available at: https://ecdc.europa.eu/sites/portal/files/media/en/publications/Publications/01-08-2016-RRA-Enterovirus 71-Spain, France, Netherlands.pdf (accessed 7 August 2018)
9. Chong PF, Kira R, Mori H, et al. Clinical features of acute flaccid myelitis temporally associated with an enterovirus D68 outbreak: results of a nationwide survey of acute flaccid paralysis in Japan, August–December 2015. Clin Infect Dis 2018; 66: 653–64
10. Sejvar JJ, Lopez AS, Cortese MM, et al. Acute flaccid myelitis in the United States, August–December 2014: results of nationwide surveillance. Clin Infect Dis 2016; 63: 737–45
11. Ooi MH, Wong SC, Clear D, et al. Adenovirus type 21-associated acute flaccid paralysis during an outbreak of hand-foot-and-mouth disease in Sarawak, Malaysia. Clin Infect Dis 2003; 36: 550–9
12. Solomon T, Willison H. Infectious causes of acute flaccid paralysis. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2003; 16: 375–81
13. Solomon T, Kneen R, Dung NM, et al. Poliomyelitis-like illness due to Japanese encephalitis virus. Lancet 1998; 351: 1094–7
14. Matthews WB. Aids to the examination of the peripheral nervous system. J Neurol Sci 1977; 33: 299
15. Palisano R, Rosenbaum P, Walter S, Russell D, Wood E, Galuppi B. Development and reliability of a system to classify gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol 1997; 39: 214–23
16. Iverson SA, Ostdiek S, Prasai S, et al. Notes from the field: cluster of acute flaccid myelitis in five pediatric patients – Maricopa County, Arizona, 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2017; 66: 758–60
17. Bonwitt J, Poel A, DeBolt C, et al. Acute flaccid myelitis among children – Washington, September–November 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2017; 66: 826–9
18. Zack MM, Kobau R. National and State Estimates of the Numbers of Adults and Children with Active Epilepsy – United States, 2015. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2017; 66: 821–5
19. Van Haren K, Ayscue P, Waubant E, et al. Acute flaccid myelitis of unknown etiology in California, 2012–2015. JAMA 2015; 314: 2663–71
20. Hennessey MJ, Pastula DM, Machesky K, et al. Investigation of acute flaccid paralysis reported with La Crosse virus infection, Ohio, USA, 2008–2014. Emerg Infect Dis 2017; 23: 2075–7
21. Weidauer S, Nichtweiss M, Hattingen E, Berkefeld J. Spinal cord ischemia: aetiology, clinical syndromes and imaging features. Neuroradiology 2015; 57: 241–57
22. McCoy DB, Talbott JF, Wilson M, et al. MRI atlas-based measurement of spinal cord injury predicts outcome in acute flaccid myelitis. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2017; 38: 410–17
23. Maloney JA, Mirsky DM, Messacar K, Dominguez SR, Schreiner T, Stence NV. MRI findings in children with acute flaccid paralysis and cranial nerve dysfunction occurring during the 2014 enterovirus D68 outbreak. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2015; 36: 245–50
24. Zeng H, Wen F, Gan Y, Huang W. MRI and associated clinical characteristics of EV71-induced brainstem encephalitis in children with hand-foot-mouth disease. Neuroradiology 2012; 54: 623–30
25. Zimmerman HM. The pathology of Japanese B encephalitis. Am J Pathol 1946; 22: 965–91
26. Leis AA, Stokic DS, Polk JL, Dostrow V, Winkelmann M. A poliomyelitis-like syndrome from West Nile virus infection. N Engl J Med 2002; 347: 1279–80
27. Hixon AM, Yu G, Leser JS, et al. A mouse model of paralytic myelitis caused by enterovirus D68. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13: e1006199
28. Martin JA, Messacar K, Yang ML, et al. Outcomes of Colorado children with acute flaccid myelitis at 1 year. Neurology 2017; 89: 129–37
29. Towns M, Rosenbaum P, Palisano R, Wright FV. Should the Gross Motor Function Classification System be used for children who do not have cerebral palsy? Dev Med Child Neurol 2018; 60: 147–54
30. Pidcock FS, Krishnan C, Crawford TO, Salorio CF, Trovato M, Kerr DA. Acute transverse myelitis in childhood: center-based analysis of 47 cases. Neurology 2007; 68: 1474–80
31. Deiva K, Absoud M, Hemingway C, et al. Acute idiopathic transverse myelitis in children: early predictors of relapse and disability. Neurology 2015; 84: 341–9