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J Korean Neurol Assoc. 2008;26(3):267-269.
Japanese-B Virus Encephalitis With Biphasic Illness Pattern
Young-Il Kim
Department of Neurology, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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김영일, 안재영 오윤상 박인석 김중석 김영인 이광수
가톨릭대학교 의과대학 신경과학교실
Abstract
Japanese-B virus encephalitis (JE), the most common human endemic and epidemic encephalitis, usually has a uniphasic illness with a variable outcome. A 49-year-old woman with cognitive dysfunction from JE had improved over 3 weeks. Brain MRI revealed multiple lesions in the bilateral thalamus, caudate nuclei and medial temporal lobe. Two weeks after discharge, the patient showed re-aggravation of the cognitive dysfunction and lapsed into coma. We report a patient with JE having showed biphasic illness pattern.KeyWords:Japanese-B virus encephalitis, Outcome

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