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Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy is a rare central nervous system disease with a mortality rate of approximately 30%, requiring high clinical suspicion in pediatric patients with viral infections.
Clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy in pediatric patients presenting with neurologic deficits and a history of viral infections.
Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy leads to devastating neurological sequelae and even death.Clinician should try to miss this diagnosis whenever there is a viral infection with neurological deficit especially in pediatric age group.ABSTRACT Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy (ANE) is a rare disease affecting the central nervous system.It leads to devastating neurological sequelae with a mortality rate of approximately 30%.Clinicians should have high suspicion whenever there is neurologic deficit and history of viral infections especially involving upper respiratory tract in the paediatric age group.
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Chipongo et al. (2023) studied Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy. Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy is a rare central nervous system disease with a mortality rate of approximately 30%, requiring high clinical suspicion in pediatric patients with viral infections.
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