Subacute Sclerosing (Inclusion Body) Encephalitis

Recovery from Presumed Subacute Inclusion-body Encephalitis.

A Case of Subacute Inclusion Encephalitis

Cases of subacute inclusion encephalitis were first described by Dawson (1933, 1934) in a youth aged 16 and a girl of 5 years in Tennesee. The changes were mainly in the grey matter and inclusions of Cowdry type A were found in neurones and oligodendrocytes. In the next 20 years 18 similar cases had been reported, 12 in males and six in females, all in children or young people in their first tw...

[A case of subacute inclusion encephalitis].

Cases of subacute inclusion encephalitis were first described by Dawson (1933, 1934) in a youth aged 16 and a girl of 5 years in Tennesee. The changes were mainly in the grey matter and inclusions of Cowdry type A were found in neurones and oligodendrocytes. In the next 20 years 18 similar cases had been reported, 12 in males and six in females, all in children or young people in their first tw...

Subacute sclerosing pan encephalitis with HIV: two rare case reports

Case Reports Two children, a 10 year old boy and an 11 year old girl, both HIV-1 seropositive following perinatally acquired infection, presented with strikingly different clinical symptoms to Neurology OPD, NIMHANS. The boy presented with deterioration in scholastic performance over a four month duration with generalized tonic clonic seizures of 1 month duration. Vision was normal. The girl wa...

Subacute Sclerosing Pan-Encephalitis (SSPE) – Past and Present

Subacute Scerosing Pan Encephalitis (SSPE), a devastating brain disease of young children was frequently taken into account in the differential diagnosis of the so-called "neurodegenerative diseases of childhood" by paediatricians, child neurologist and psychiatrists during the second half of the last century. Fortunately, this diagnosis is considered very rarely today in well developed countri...