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A fulminant and often fatal demyelinating disease of the brain which primarily affects young adults and children. Clinical features include the rapid onset of weakness, SEIZURES, and COMA. It may follow a viral illness or MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE infections but in most instances there is no precipitating event. Pathologic examination reveals marked perivascular demyelination and necrosis of white matter with microhemorrhages. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp924-5)
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- Acute Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitis
- Encephalomyelitis, Acute Necrotizing Hemorrhagic
- Hurst Disease
- Hurst Syndrome
- Hurst's Disease
- Leukoencephalitis Acuta Hemorrhagica
- Leukoencephalitis, Acute Hemorrhagic
- Acute Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitides
- Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitides
- Disease, Hurst
- Disease, Hurst's
- Encephalomyelitides, Acute Hemorrhagic
- Encephalomyelitis, Acute Hemorrhagic
- Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitides, Acute
- Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitis, Acute
- Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitides, Acute
- Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis, Acute
- Hursts Disease
- Leukoencephalitides, Acute Hemorrhagic
- Syndrome, Hurst
- Encephalitis, Acute Necrotizing
- Encephalomyelitis, Hemorrhagic Necrotizing
- Encephalomyelitis, Necrotizing Hemorrhagic
- Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitis, Necrotizing
- Hemorrhagic Necrotizing Encephalomyelitis
- Leukoencephalitis, Subacute Hemorrhagic
- Necrotizing Encephalomyelitis, Hemorrhagic
- Necrotizing Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitis
- Acute Necrotizing Encephalitides
- Acute Necrotizing Encephalitis
- Encephalitides, Acute Necrotizing
- Encephalomyelitides, Hemorrhagic Necrotizing
- Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitides, Necrotizing
- Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitides, Subacute
- Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis, Subacute
- Leukoencephalitides, Subacute Hemorrhagic
- Necrotizing Encephalitides, Acute
- Necrotizing Encephalitis, Acute
- Necrotizing Encephalomyelitides, Hemorrhagic
- Necrotizing Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitides
- Subacute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitides
- Subacute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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History Note
1997; was ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, NECROTIZING HEMORRHAGIC 1991-1996 (see under ENCEPHALOMYELITIS 1972-1990); HURST DISEASE was HURST'S DISEASE 1997
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- Demyelinating Diseases (1966-1971)
- Encephalomyelitis (1966-1971)
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- National Library of Medicine. Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004684. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004684
- Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18966598