Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: a case report.

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in Iran

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis, immunological findings in saliva and salivary glands

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in Iran. Clinical and immunoligical characlerisation

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in a Child with Recurrent Febrile Seizures

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a devastating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) caused by persistent mutant measles virus infection. The diagnosis of SSPE is based on characteristic clinical and EEG findings and demonstration of elevated antibody titres against measles in cerebrospinal fluid. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis can have atypical clinical features at the ...

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis presenting with hemiparesis in childhood: case report.

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a chronic and fatal disease of the central nervous system. Most patients present with progressive psychointellectual disturbances. A 14-month-old girl was admitted to our hospital because of left-sided hemiparesis. During hospitalization, focal and generalized seizures occurred. The electroencephalogram (EEG) revealed that periodic lateralized discharges c...

Case report and molecular analysis of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in a South African Child.

This is the first case of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis from South Africa in which the molecular characteristics of the causative measles virus were examined. The virus found is classified as genotype D3, which has not previously been found in Africa and was last circulating in the United States before 1992.