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Basal ganglia infarction associated with HHV-6 infection
D W Webb1, B H Bjornson, M A Sargent
1Department of Paediatric Neurology, British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|April 1, 1997
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.