Post-vaccinial encephalomyelitis - Probable acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) -: A case report

Manish Kumar; Sangita Kamath; Ashok Sunder

doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_651_19

Post-vaccinial encephalomyelitis - Probable acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) -: A case report

J Family Med Prim Care. 2019 Oct 31;8(10):3425-3427. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_651_19. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Manish Kumar¹, Sangita Kamath¹, Ashok Sunder¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Tata Main Hospital, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India.

Abstract

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease that typically occurs following a viral infection or vaccination. The incidence of ADEM following vaccination has fallen since the introduction of non-neural rabies vaccine and very few cases have been reported due to pure chick embryo derived rabies vaccine (PCERV). Here we are reporting a rare case of probable post vaccinial ADEM.

Keywords: Demyelination; fever; paralysis; vaccine.

Publication types

Case Reports