MR imaging in Nipah virus infection
- Author:
CC Tchoyoson Lim
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Neurology Asia
2009;14(1):49-52
- CountryMalaysia
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Abstract:
Advanced diffusion weighted (DW) MRI of the brain in the fatal outbreak of Nipah viral encephalitis
among pig workers in Malaysia and Singapore revealed a pattern similar to ischaemic infarction caused
by obstruction of small cerebral blood vessels. However, relapse and late-onset cases in Malaysia, and
other outbreaks of Nipah virus in Bangladesh and the Hendra virus infection in Australia, showed a
different MRI pattern of predominantly confluent cortical lesions. MRI was useful in characterizing
the disease in acute infection, as well as detection of spine abnormalities and subclinical infection.
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