2. Academic Validation
  3. Eastern Equine Encephalitis Treated With Intravenous Immunoglobulins

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Treated With Intravenous Immunoglobulins

  • Neurohospitalist. 2016 Jan;6(1):29-31. doi: 10.1177/1941874415578533.
Shibani S Mukerji 1,  Alice D Lam 1,  Michael R Wilson 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • 2 Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
PMID: 26740855 DOI: 10.1177/1941874415578533
Abstract

We report the case of a 68-year-old man from southeastern Massachusetts presenting with encephalitis due to eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus. Despite the high morbidity and mortality rate of EEE, the patient made a near complete recovery in the setting of receiving early intravenous immunoglobulins.

Keywords

central nervous system; central nervous system infections; encephalitis; movement disorders; viral diseases.

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