Neurological complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection
Hely, M.A.; Williamson, P.M.; Terenty, T.R.
Clinical and Experimental Neurology 20: 153-160
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0196-6383 PMID: 6439446 Document Number: 224465
This study documents five patients with neurological disease associated with evidence of recent Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Four patients had encephalitis associated with coma. Two of these had hemiparesis (one with dysphasia), one had seizures, and one had cerebellar and brainstem involvement. Two also had evidence of a radiculopathy and peripheral neuropathy. One patient had aseptic meningitis with later transverse myelitis. Three patients had multiple sites of neurological involvement. Respiratory infections preceded the neurological syndromes in four cases. Antibiotic therapy did not appear to alter the course of the disease. All patients had a favourable outcome.