Acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an adult as a complication of H1N1 infection

Heba S Abdelrahman; Ahmed M Safwat; Mahmoud M Alsagheir

doi:10.1259/bjrcr.20190028

Acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an adult as a complication of H1N1 infection

BJR Case Rep. 2019 Nov 15;5(4):20190028. doi: 10.1259/bjrcr.20190028. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Heba S Abdelrahman¹, Ahmed M Safwat², Mahmoud M Alsagheir³

Affiliations

¹ Radiology department, Faculty of medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
² Neurology department, Saudi German Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Anesthesia and intensive care department, Faculty of medicine, AL-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

Abstract

Acute necrotizing encephalitis is one of the recognized influenza-associated encephalopathies which has a characteristic multifocal symmetric involvement of the thalami bilaterally with only very few cases were reported in adults. We present a case of a young adult female who was presented with post-H1N1 Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy with full neurological recovery after proper clinicoradiological diagnosis and rapid treatment with steroids and intravenous immunoglobulins.

Publication types

Case Reports