A 4-year-old girl with diarrhoea, paresis and mutism

BACKGROUND Rotavirus is a common cause of gastroenteritis in children. Neurological manifestations associated with rotavirus infections are well described and range from benign afebrile convulsions to lethal encephalopathy or encephalitis.CASE PRESENTATION We present an uncommon neurological manifestation in a Caucasian child in the course of a rotavirus infection. A 4-year old girl presented with mutism, hypotonia and reduced consciousness. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed diffusion abnormalities in the splenium corpus callosum and bilaterally in the nuclei dentate in the cerebellum. She was diagnosed with rotavirus cerebellitis.INTERPRETATION Her clinical symptoms and the magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities were uncommon and previously described in only a few Caucasian children. The outcome has varied, and some children have shown long term neurological sequela. Treatment with immunoglobulins and corticosteroids has been used in similar cases, but there is no established treatment for this condition.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:136

Enthalten in:

Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke - 136(2016), 17 vom: 02. Sept., Seite 1458-60

Sprache:

Norwegisch

Weiterer Titel:

En fire år gammel jente med diaré, kraftsvikt og mutisme

Beteiligte Personen:

Engan, Mette [VerfasserIn]
Bjørlykke, John Asle [VerfasserIn]
Moen, Gunnar [VerfasserIn]
Lund, Kjetil Børve [VerfasserIn]
Njølstad, Gro [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 27.02.2017

Date Revised 17.08.2017

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4045/tidsskr.16.0070

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM264843878