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Strümpell-Leichtenstern encephalitis
Also known as:
Weston Hurst's acute haemorrhagic leukoencephalitis (entered as a separate entity under Hurst's disease).
Associated persons:
Edward Weston Hurst
Otto Michael Ludwig Leichtenstern
Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried von Strümpell
Description:
Acute hemorrhagic encephalitis affecting both sexes. Onset at all ages, but prevalent in children. It is characterized by necrosis, haemorrhage, and demyelination of the white matter. The symptoms include fever, headache, cough, stupor, confusion, convulsions; delirium; coma, disorientation, hallucination, hemiparesis, mental dullness, quadriplegia, facial paralysis, nuchal rigidity, diplopia, papilledema, and dysphasia.
Bibliography:
- A. G. G. von Strümpell:
Über primäre acute Encephalitis.
Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medicin, Leipzig, 1890, 47: 53-74.
- O. Leichtenstern:
Über primäre hämorrhagische Encephalitis.
Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, Berlin, 1892, 18: 39-40.
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