An 8-y-old boy with acute stroke and radiological signs of cerebral vasculitis after recent Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.
A young boy was admitted to hospital for acute stroke. Cerebral angiography showed a pattern suggestive of vasculitis and a recent Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection was detected. The absence of microorganisms in cerebrospinal fluid, the pattern of vasculitis and previous reports supporting a post-infectious immunological mechanism for certain complications of M. pneumoniae infection suggest this mechanism as the cause of the stroke.
Ovetchkine
Philippe
P
Service de Pédiatrie, Hĵpital Jean Verdier, Bondy, France.
Brugières
Pierre
P
Seradj
Ali
A
Reinert
Philippe
P
Cohen
Robert
R
D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002648:Child; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009177:Mycoplasma pneumoniae / Q000472:pathogenicity; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000150:complications*; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*; D020293:Vasculitis, Central Nervous System / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*