Respiratory syncytial virus-associated seizures in Korean children, 2011–2016

Cha, Teahyen; Choi, Young Jin; Oh, Jae-Won; Kim, Chang-Ryul; Park, Dong Woo; Seol, In Joon; Moon, Jin-Hwa

Encephalopathy is a well-recognized RSV-associated complication, and its incidence has been reported to be 1.8%. 12) RSVasso ciated encephalopathies are often present with seizure. 12) Millichap and Wainwright 5) reported a greater severity of the neurological complications of RSV infection. They reported the cases of 9 patients, of which 4 (44%) were complicated by cardiac arrest, and 2 of the patients died. 5) Uda and Kitazawa 8) reported that the RSV-positive status epilepticus group required more ventilator care and antiepileptic drug treatment than did the RSV-negative status epilepticus group, and nearly one-third of them developed encephalopathy and profound neurological sequelae. In the present study, encephalopathy with seizure was rare and observed in only one patient. She recovered without complications, and DWI showed transient changes.