Neurologic complications of influenza

J Child Neurol. 2014 Sep;29(9):NP49-53. doi: 10.1177/0883073813499610. Epub 2013 Sep 26.

Abstract

We report on a child with mild encephalopathy with reversible splenial lesion (MERS) associated with influenza infection and present a case series of neurological complications associated with influenza infections in children who presented to a tertiary children's hospital in Australia over a period of one year.

Keywords: influenza; neurologic complications; splenial lesion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Diseases / etiology*
  • Brain Diseases / pathology
  • Brain Diseases / physiopathology
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Influenza, Human / complications*
  • Influenza, Human / pathology
  • Influenza, Human / physiopathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Retrospective Studies