title: Pediatric ischemic stroke due to dengue vasculitis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Dengue infection is an important arboviral infection in southeast Asia, especially in India. Neurological manifestations of dengue are increasingly recognized.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report an ischemic stroke due to dengue vasculitis in an 8-year-old child.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present a girl with a short febrile illness followed by episodic severe headache, with gradually progressive hemiparesis and visual impairment. Her brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed multiple infarctions in the anterior and posterior circulation. The magnetic resonance angiogram revealed irregular narrowing of bilateral middle cerebral arteries, right anterior cerebral artery, left posterior cerebral, and bilateral vertebral arteries suggestive of vasculitis. Her dengue serology was strongly positive for immunoglobulin M with 68.9 panbio units. The rest of the evaluation for pediatric stroke was unremarkable. She was treated with intravenous followed by oral corticosteroids and recovered totally with resolution of vasculitis on magnetic resonance angiogram over the next 3 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This child illustrates possible immune-mediated vasculitis caused by dengue infection which is rather a rare presentation in a child who subsequently recovered well. One should consider dengue in childhood strokes in endemic regions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Subrat Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Nanda
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Electronic address: sita_js@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Sita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jayalakshmi
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Surath
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohandas
mesh_terms: D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D003715:Dengue / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology
keywords: child; dengue infection; ischemic stroke; vasculitis