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Induction and Clinical Scoring of Chronic-Relapsing Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
Published on: July 4, 2007
Encephalitis after hepatitis B vaccination: recurrent disseminated encephalitis or MS?
1Fédération de Neurologie, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière and Faculté de Mëdecine Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris VI) France.
Objective:
To describe clinical and MRI features of patients with a disease suggestive of CNS inflammation after hepatitis B vaccination.
Methods:
Eight patients with confirmed CNS inflammation occurring less than 10 weeks after hepatitis B vaccination are described. They received follow-up clinically and on MRI for a mean period of 18 months.
Results:
Clinical and MRI findings were compatible with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. However, clinical follow-up, repeated MRI, or both showed the persistence of inflammatory activity, which makes this encephalitis more suggestive of MS than of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.
Conclusion:
The persistent inflammatory activity observed clinically and on MRI in these patients is comparable with that usually observed in MS. Epidemiologic studies are currently testing the hypothesis of a triggering role of hepatitis B vaccination in CNS demyelination.
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