FATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY IN GLANDULAR FEVER

Fatal encephalopathy in glandular fever.

In 1931, Epstein and Dameshek reported a case of meningo-encephalitis complicating glandular fever and in the same year Johansen described a similar case. From 1940 onwards there were a number of reports of individual cases, or small groups of cases, with one or other of the central nervous system complications now known to occur in this disease. Such reports came mainly from North America and ...

Steroid therapy in glandular fever.

Glandular fever or infectious mononucleosis is a disease of undetermined aetiology which may present variously. The literature is replete with accounts of its complications. In spite of the usually benign course, there remains a small mortality rate and it is therefore not surprising that adrenal corticosteroid treatment has been used in the severest forms of the illness. Doran et al.3 describe...

Extreme neutropenia in glandular fever.

Extreme neutropenia has very rarely been recorded as a complication of glandular fever. Two non-fatal cases, with mild secondary infections, are now reported. Extreme neutropenia may in fact be less rare in this disease than it appears to be, but serious illness as a result is exceedingly unusual.

Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis).

Glandular Fever: Infectious Mononucleosis