Affiliation:
1. Department of Psychiatry, Grant Government Medical College and Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Abstract
Abstract
The following case report is of a 17-year-old male who presented to the emergency psychiatry department with complaints of aggressiveness, suspiciousness, hallucinatory behavior with abnormal movements of upper limbs for the past 2 months on the background of withdrawn behavior, low mood, and scholastic deterioration for the past year with positive cerebrospinal fluid antimeasles antibody screen but consecutive normal electroencephalograph (EEG) who responded to olanzapine and valproate with complete control of abnormal behavior and movements. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a dire sequela of measles-induced encephalitis. Symptoms appear around 6–15 years after a primary infection and have varied presentation with mortality around 3 to 6 years of symptom onset. Eighteen percentage of cases show normal EEG tracing with spontaneous remission of clinical features.