[Considerations on the complications of epidemic parotitis].
The AA describe 82 cases of complications occurred during an outbreak of mumps in 1980-81. Forty-two cases of meningitis, 4 of pancreatitis, 2 of orchitis and 2 cases of encefalitis occurred. All patients had eventual, complete recovery. The other cases are not specific complications. The treatment was almost entirely symptomatic. The headache of meningitis was relieved by a lumbar poncture. In the epicrisis of the AA these cases of complications have some importance in relation to the opportunity of getting herd vaccination against mumps.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000209:etiology; D009107:Mumps / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D009920:Orchitis / Q000209:etiology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology
Considerazioni sulle complicanze di un'epidemia di parotite.