Cerebral infarction associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
An 8-year-old girl with a cerebral infarction and pneumonia developed the acute hemiparesis associated with clinical and serologic evidence of Mycoplasma pneumonia infection. Mycoplasma complement fixation titers increased from 1:1,024 on the tenth day of illness to 1:greater than 16,384 at three weeks and subsequently decreased to 1:512 at seven weeks. Total resolution of her facial weakness, hemiparesis, dysphagia and dysarthria occurred by eight weeks.
D000667:Ampicillin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D002648:Child; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D005839:Gentamicins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000276:immunology; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D005839:Gentamicins; D000667:Ampicillin