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Posted On : 21 Sep 2018

i am a pediatrician seeing agirl child 3 years with meningitis improving but having weakness all four limbs dtr negative power 3, 5 all four limbs MRI brain normal my diagnosis is critical illness neuropathy suggest please

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samir algahlan

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This most probably post infection autoimmune encephalitis or Gullian Barre disease so it’s better to start pulsed steroids 30 mg/kg for 3-5 days or IVIG 1gm/kg for 2days or plasmapheresis

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kadri soliman

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Brain stem encephalitis

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Latrice

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Encephalitis

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