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. 2013 Sep;56(9):411-5.
doi: 10.3345/kjp.2013.56.9.411. Epub 2013 Sep 30.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae associated stroke in a 3-year-old girl

Gun-Ha Kim  1 , Won Hee Seo, Bo-Kyung Je, So-Hee Eun
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae associated stroke in a 3-year-old girl

Gun-Ha Kim et al. Korean J Pediatr. 2013 Sep.

Abstract

Infectious diseases precede a significant proportion of acute ischemic strokes in children. Here, we report a case of acute ischemic stroke in a 3-year-old girl with a Mycoplasma pneumonia-associated respiratory tract infection. She developed an acquired prothrombotic state of protein S deficiency and had increased fibrinogen and fibrinogen degradation product levels and increased titer of antinuclear antibodies. However, these conditions were completely alleviated at the 1-month follow-up examination. Infection with M. pneumoniae may cause a transient prothrombotic state that can potentially cause a thrombus.

Keywords: Child; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; Stroke.

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed on a 3T MRI scanner (Achieva 3T; Philips Medical System). MRI images showed a round lesion involving the right basal ganglia, which was hyperintense on T2-weighted images (top left image) and hypointense on T1-weighted images (top right image), with diffusion restriction (bottom left image) and low apparent deficient coefficient values (bottom right image), indicating acute infarction in the area of the right lenticulostriate arteries.
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