Recurrent disseminated vasculomyelinopathy

Arch Neurol. 1978 Mar;35(3):166-70. doi: 10.1001/archneur.1978.00500270048010.

Abstract

The monosymptomatic (recurrent infantile hemiplegia) and the polysymptomatic forms of disseminated vasculomyelinopathy that follow various infections and antigenic challenge to the nervous system were seen in two cases. These cases emphasize the importance of vasculopathy as the initial and obligatory component of the postinfectious and postimmunization neurologic syndromes as well as the clinical and pathological variability of the secondary effects on the nervous system. Recurrent infantile hemiplegia occurred in the first patient. In the second patient, after two episodes of postinfectious myelinoclastic encephalopathy, concurrent acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalopathy and an acute Guillain-Barré syndrome following swine flu vaccination developed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental / etiology*
  • Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental / pathology
  • Female
  • Hemiplegia / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Influenza Vaccines / adverse effects
  • Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal / etiology
  • Male
  • Myelin Sheath* / pathology
  • Polyradiculopathy / etiology
  • Recurrence
  • Vasculitis / etiology*
  • Virus Diseases / complications

Substances

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones
  • Influenza Vaccines