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Rotavirus-Associated Mild Encephalopathy with a Reversible Splenial Lesion (MERS)
BMC Infect Dis 15:446, Karampatsas, K.,et al, 2015
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Article Abstract
MERS is a novel clinic-radiological syndrome first described in Japan. A transient splenial lesion with reduced diffusion that appears as a high signal intensity in diffusion-weighted MRI is the main diagnostic feature. Rotavirus is one of the most common agents associated with MERS, although our knowledge only one previous case has been reported from Europe. The majority of patients appear to achieve full recovery following rotavirus-associated MERS, irrespective of treatment. This case, together with other published reports, supports the hypothesis that rotavirus-associated MERS is unlikely to be the result of direct viral invasion of the CNS. It has been suggested that MERS may caused by intra-myelinic axonal oedema or local inflammatory cell infiltration; however, the pathogenesis remains incompletely understood.
 
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