Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after dengue

Abdoulahy Diallo; Yacouba Dembele; Céline Michaud; Maxime Jean; Mohamadou Niang; Pascal Meliani; Issifou Yaya; Sarah Permal

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00862

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after dengue

IDCases. 2020 Jun 2:21:e00862. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00862. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Abdoulahy Diallo¹, Yacouba Dembele², Céline Michaud¹, Maxime Jean¹, Mohamadou Niang¹, Pascal Meliani¹, Issifou Yaya^{3

4}, Sarah Permal¹

Affiliations

¹ Service De Médecine Polyvalente, Centre Hospitalier De Mayotte, Mamoudzou, Mayotte, France.
² Laboratoire De Biologie Médicale, Centre Hospitalier De Mayotte, Mamoudzou, Mayotte, France.
³ IRD, Inserm, Univ Montpellier, TransVIHMI, Montpellier, France.
⁴ Association des Chercheurs Africains en Santé des Populations (ACASP), Paris, France.

Abstract

Dengue fever, transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, is one of the most common vector-borne disease. Its incidence is increasing steadily worldwide, becoming a major public health problem in the tropical and subtropical zone. Neurological manifestations after dengue are not very common and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) following dengue infections is rare with a few cases documented in literature. Clinical characteristics and typical lesions of ADEM on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain along with serologic positivity for dengue usually confirm the diagnosis. We report a case of ADEM which developed as a neurological complication of dengue during an epidemic in a 39-year-old woman.

Keywords: ADEM, Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis; Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; CSF, Cerebrospinal Fluid; Dengue infection; EEG, Electroencephalography; MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mayotte; PCR, Polymerase Chain Reaction.

Publication types

Case Reports