Successful thyrotropin-releasing hormone therapy for emotional incontinence and amnesia resulting from mumps encephalitis.
A healthy 7-year-old girl developed emotional incontinence and amnesia associated with mumps encephalitis. Her neurologic findings markedly improved after treatment of daily injection of thyrotropin-releasing hormone tartrate without any adverse effects. Although magnetic resonance imaging revealed no abnormal findings, the findings of Tc-hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime single photon emission computed tomography demonstrated abnormality of left temporooccipital area thought to be responsible for her symptoms.
Kubo
Tomohiro
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Department of Pediatrics, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan. bokukubo17@hotmail.com
Kobayashi
Osamu
O
Nozaki
Masatoshi
M
Kurokawa
Takayuki
T
Tamura
Kikuko
K
Nonoyama
Shigeaki
S
D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D000647:Amnesia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002648:Child; D018792:Encephalitis, Viral / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009107:Mumps / Q000150:complications*; D019690:Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
D019690:Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone