Cat-Scratch Disease Causing Reversible Encephalopathy

6 October 1978

journal article
case report
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 240 (15) , 1628-1629
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1978.03290150074032

Abstract

CAT-SCRATCH disease (CSD), also known as benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis or nonbacterial regional lymphadenitis, is a nonfatal illness that Debre et al¹first described in 1950. It is characterized by malaise; fever; subacute lymphadenitis limited to one region, with tendency to suppurate and with or without a primary skin lesion distal to the node; and a history of a cat scratch or bite or of some comparable trauma to the skin. Neurologic manifestations are uncommon. Stevens²was the first to report a case of encephalitis associated with CSD in 1952, and since then, 18 documented cases of this complication have been published in the English-language literature.³Only two of these occurred in adults. We report a case of acute encephalopathy associated with CSD in an adult patient whose illness had some unusual aspects. Report of a Case A 26-year-old physician, a native of India, was brought to the

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