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Basal ganglia infarction associated with HHV-6 infection
  1. David W Webba,
  2. Bruce H Bjornsona,
  3. Michael A Sargentb,
  4. Juliette Hukina,
  5. Eva E Thomasc
  1. aBritish Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Department of Paediatric Neurology, bDepartment of Radiology, cDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  1. Dr D W Webb, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Falls Road, Belfast BT12 6BE.

Abstract

A 6 year old boy presented with meningoencephalitis and was found to have serological evidence of acute human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) infection. He did not develop symptomatic seizures or the rash of exanthum subitum (roseola). His course was marked by severe spastic quadriparesis associated with radiological evidence of basal ganglia infarction. HHV-6 infection should be considered in any child with acute meningoencephalitis.

  • human herpes virus-6
  • meninogoencephalitis
  • neurological sequelae

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.76.4.362

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