Levodopa responsive dystonia secondary to virus encephalitis.

Dr. Ailton Melo – Av. Magalhães Neto 735/802 41820-020 Salvador BA Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Movement disorders secondary to virus encephalitis is an uncommom feature and is mainly observed after the acute or subacute stage of Japanese encephalitis. This condition, described in Asian countries, is characterized by pleomorphic neurologic signs and poor outcome as 30% of patients die and around half of the survivors have severe neurological sequelae. In Brazil, although some extra-piramidal syndromes such as chorea continues to be an endemic post-infectious disease, dystonia has seldom been related to central nervous system infection. In previous paper, our group showed that the neurological sequelae of post infectious meningoencephalitis are extremely pleomorphic, however no case of dystonia was described.