A girl developed subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). Eight years earlier she had had measles infection contracted shortly after cytotoxic treatment and radiotherapy for a spinal neuroblastoma. The case illustrates that typical SSPE, like immunosuppressive measles encephalopathy, can arise after drug-induced immunosuppression, and supports the view that these diseases probably represent ...

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a slowly progressive inflammatory disease of the central nervous system caused by a persistent measles virus usually affecting the childhood and adolescent age group. Clinical features at onset are very subtle and non-specific. Certain atypical features can occur at onset or during the course of illness which can be misleading. Neuroimaging features...

Solution uniqueness is an important property for a bargaining model. Rubinstein’s (1982) seminal 2-person alternating-offer bargaining game has a unique Subgame Perfect Equilibrium outcome. Is it possible to obtain uniqueness results in the much enlarged setting of multilateral bargaining with a characteristic function? In an exploratory effort, this paper investigates a model first proposed in...

Recent evidence has suggested that subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is due to temperate infection of the brain by a virus, probably measles virus (Symposium, 1968). In the majority of patients with SSPE, chemical analysis of the brain has shown features of inflammation and demyelination (Cumings, 1965), though 2 patients have been described previously whose brains had abnormal pattern...

Comparative studies between two measles virus strains isolated from patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) and a prototype low tissue culture passage Edmonston measles virus are described. Differences were noted in several properties. The findings described in this report suggest that strains of measles virus associated with SSPE have different biological properties and appare...

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a fatal sequela associated with measles and is caused by persistent infection of the brain with measles virus (MV). The SI strain was isolated in 1976 from a patient with SSPE and shows neurovirulence in animals. Genome nucleotide sequence analyses showed that the SI strain genome possesses typical genome alterations for SSPE-derived strains, namely...

BACKGROUND Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a potentially fatal complication of measles. The authors report a case of recurrent myoclonic jerks under investigation, whose ophthalmic examination pointed to the diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION A 12-year-old boy with recurrent episodes of myoclonic jerks was found to have optic disc pallor and an irregular macular scar with pigmentation...