Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: Case study and Literature Review (P4.039)

Conclusions: SSPE is an important disease entity which should be on the differential diagnosis of any patient exposed to measles as infant/child with new onset movement disorder/neurodegenerative disorder and may present atypically in young adult population. SSPE is only as common as measles incidence, with an effective worldwide measles vaccination program that may be the best approach to reducing the incidence of this devastating and almost universally fatal disease entity. Hopefully this review will help update Neurologists and Clinicians on what to look for in patients when trying to diagnose these patients which for many clinicians may have only been seen in textbooks given its rarity outside of the developing world.Disclosure: Dr. Estupinan has nothing to disclose. Dr. McFarland has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: General Neurology III Source Type: research