{"id":1683,"date":"2016-04-02T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/?page_id=1683"},"modified":"2018-10-14T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T18:08:22","slug":"subacute-sclerosing-panencephalitis-sspe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/subacute-sclerosing-panencephalitis-sspe\/","title":{"rendered":"Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Diagnosis:<\/h4>\n<p>Clinical features, plus EEG<\/p>\n<h4>Clinical features:<\/h4>\n<p>Previous measles infection. Children or young adults.<br \/>\nSubacute onset of progressive cognitive deficits, behavioural problems, spasticity, rigidity,<br \/>\nMyoclonus, generalised seizures<\/p>\n<h4>Findings on Investigations:<\/h4>\n<p>EEG: flat with episodic bursts<br \/>\nAnti-measles antibodies<br \/>\nCSF: raised IgG index<\/p>\n<h4>Pathology:<\/h4>\n<p>Gross: hard brain (gliosis), Microscopic: intracellular (type A) and intracytoplasmic neuronal and glial inclusions<\/p>\n<h4>Related articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/approach-cognitive\/\">Approach to cognitive dysfunction<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/diseases\/encephalitis\/\">Encephalitis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/diseases\/epilepsy\/\">epilepsy<\/a>,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnosis: Clinical features, plus EEG Clinical features: Previous measles infection. Children or young adults. Subacute onset of progressive cognitive deficits, behavioural problems, spasticity, rigidity, Myoclonus, generalised seizures Findings on Investigations: EEG: flat with episodic bursts Anti-measles antibodies CSF: raised IgG index Pathology: Gross: hard brain (gliosis), Microscopic: intracellular (type A) and intracytoplasmic neuronal and glial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/subacute-sclerosing-panencephalitis-sspe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32],"tags":[4,5,9,14],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71rnx-r9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}