Abstract

MARTINEZ BARROS, Marlon et al. Non-progressive leukoencephalopathy in patient with virus dengue infection. Acta Neurol Colomb. [online]. 2010, vol.26, n.4, pp.215-221. ISSN 0120-8748.

Dengue is one of the most common infectious and reemerging diseases in tropical countries. This year Colombia, has shown a particular included increase in the prevalence of this disease whose clinical manifestations included signs and symtoms of central nervous system. This paper, report a patient with clinical picture correspondent to Dengue´s shock, where neuroimaging findings might belong to non progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and also its presents the correlation between magnetic resonance imaging, lectroencephalogram findings and clinical evolution of the patient.

Keywords : Dengue; Brain diseases; Non Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy; Neurophysiology.

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