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
  • 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.