Korean J Pediatr Infect Dis.  1998 Nov;5(2):308-312. 10.14776/kjpid.1998.5.2.308.

A Case of Cerebral Infarction Associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection

• Ahn YJ
• Choi KC
• Yang ES
• Park YB
• Park SK
• Moon KR
• Kim YS

• KMID: 2440299
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.14776/kjpid.1998.5.2.308

Abstract

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is usually confined to the respiratory tract but it can cause a variety of extrapulmonary manifestations such as rashes, myalgia, hemolytic anemia, cerebral infarction, transverse myelitis, cerebellar ataxia, Guillain-Barre syndrome and meningoencephalitis. Neurologic complications of Mycoplasma pneumonia have been rarely reported until now. Cerebral infarction as a complication of mycoplasma infection in children has been very rarely reported. In our case, in a young girl with M.pneumoniae infection, a cerebral infarct resulted in persistent and significant neurological dysfunction. We report a 11-year-old girl with cerebral infarction associated with clinical and serologic evidence of Mycoplasma infection.

Keyword

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection; Cerebral infarction

MeSH Terms

Anemia, Hemolytic
Cerebellar Ataxia
Cerebral Infarction*
Child
Exanthema
Female
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Humans
Meningoencephalitis
Myalgia
Mycoplasma Infections
Mycoplasma pneumoniae*
Mycoplasma*
Myelitis, Transverse
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma*
Respiratory System