Kansenshōgaku zasshi. The Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
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Kansenshogaku Zasshi · Jul 2015
Case Reports[A Case of Clinically Mild Encephalitis/encephalopathy with a Reversible Splenial Lesion due to Dengue Fever].
Clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) has been recently proposed as a clinical-radiological syndrome. Several causes of MERS have been reported including infectious diseases. We present herein on a case of MERS induced by dengue fever in a Japanese traveler. ⋯ It is hypothesized that dengue fever can induce MERS as dengue fever can cause increased endothelium permeability and hypo-sodium which have been proposed in the pathogenesis of MERS. However, there is currently limited evidence for this. Further research is recommended to demonstrate a causal association between dengue fever and MERS.