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  • JNID 2014, Vol 5(2): 162

Postencephalitic Parkinsonism in a Patient with Mumps Infection: A Case Report

Suvorit Subhas Bhowmick MD1*, Pawan Soni MD1, Marami Das MD2 and Ashok Kumar Kayal MD3
1DM resident, Department of Neurology, Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, India
2Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Gauhati Medical Collegeand Hospital, Guwahati, India
3Professor and Head, Department of Neurology, Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, Guwahati, India
*Corresponding Author : Suvorit Subhas Bhowmick MD, DM resident, Department of Neurology, Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, India, Tel: +91-9085087195, Email: tutai1985@gmail.com

Received Date: May 08, 2014 / Accepted Date: Jun 25, 2014 / Published Date: Jul 03, 2014

Abstract

In 1917, Von Economo described a disease named "Encephalitis Lethargica" which affected a large number of patients across the world in an epidemic between 1916 and 1927. It's spread paralleled with the spread of the pandemic influenza, but Von Economo and the contemporary authors did not believe it to be a post-influenzal sequela. Now parkinsonism is a well-known complication of acute infectious encephalitis. There are many potential infectious causes of parkinsonism reported in literature. In India, postencephalitic parkinsonism is commonly due to Japanese Encephalitis. Neurologic manifestations reported in Mumps include meningitis, encephalitis, deafness, facial neuritis, cerebellar ataxia, hydrocephalus, transverse myelitis and polyradiculitis. We describe a case of young girl who had Mumps parotitis and encephalitis and then subsequently developed parkinsonism as a sequela. Mumps was confirmed by positive serology and basal ganglia lesions were demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of postencephalitic parkinsonism following Mumps infection from India.

Keywords: Mumps, Parkinsonism

Citation: Suvorit SB, Pawan S, Marami D, Ashok KK (2014) Postencephalitic Parkinsonism in a Patient with Mumps Infection: A Case Report. J Neuroinfect Dis 5:162

Copyright: © 2014 Subhas SB, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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