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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2014; 12(03): 145-149
DOI: 10.3233/JPN-140655
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Acute transverse myelitis and silent infection with Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Sirisha Grandhe
a   Department of Neurology, The Regional Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
,
Jacqueline F. Marcus
a   Department of Neurology, The Regional Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
,
Nilika Shah Singhal
b   Department of Child Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
,
Marisa Gardner
b   Department of Child Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
,
Emmanuelle L. Waubant
a   Department of Neurology, The Regional Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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14 August 2013

14 February 2014

Publication Date:
30 July 2015 (online)

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Abstract

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacterium which frequently causes respiratory symptoms but may present neurological complications. We report two cases of pediatric patients with acute transverse myelitis as a complication of silent infection with M. pneumoniae. To our knowledge, these are two unique cases in which respiratory symptoms did not appear prior to onset of neurological complications. We believe that clinicians may need to reevaluate the existing diagnostic protocol of acute transverse myelitis and routinely consider M. pneumoniae as a potential etiology.

Keywords

M. pneumoniae - acute transverse myelitis - children