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[Acute meningomyelitis and polyradiculoneuritis disclosing systemic lupus erythematosus]
O Mouti1, H Harmouch, M El Alaoui Faris
1Service de Neurologie, Rabat, Maroc.
Revue Neurologique
|April 9, 2002
Abstract:
A 25-year-old male presented purulent meningitis associated with transverse myelitis. Spinal T2-weighted MRI showed a large spinal cord with an intramedullary high signal. Infection resolved with antibiotic therapy but spastic paraplegia persisted. Four months later, he developed a Guillain-Barré syndrome with clinical and biological signs of systemic lupus erythematosus. Final outcome was fatal despite corticosteroid and immunoglobulin treatment.