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A case of Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis with transient reflex myoclonus
- Source :
- Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology. 57(7)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- A 33-year-old woman was admitted due to disturbance of consciousness, dysarthria, dysphagia, sensory disturbances and weakness of the left upper limb after mycoplasma infection. She was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin and intravenous high-dose methylprednisolone as Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis (BBE). On the 15th hospital day, reflex myoclonus appeared on her face, neck, body and limbs induced by techniques of jaw jerk reflex and patellar tendon reflex. The myoclonus was disappeared after two weeks in accordance with improvement of BBE. The transient reflex myoclonus may be originated from brainstem lesion which was affected by BBE. Reflex myoclonus is thought to be rare symptom in patient with BBE.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Myoclonus
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
Weakness
Time Factors
Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis
digestive system
Methylprednisolone
03 medical and health sciences
Dysarthria
0302 clinical medicine
Gangliosides
mental disorders
Medicine
Humans
Mycoplasma Infections
Autoantibodies
business.industry
Myography
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
medicine.disease
Dysphagia
nervous system diseases
Pulse Therapy, Drug
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Anesthesia
Reflex
Encephalitis
Female
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Jaw jerk reflex
medicine.drug
Brain Stem
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18820654
- Volume :
- 57
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b7d204f337190d24cb3ba4d63180ffc6