Department of Medicine, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
Libyan J Med. 2010 Feb 8;5. doi: 10.3402/ljm.v5i0.4862.
Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia is a very rare manifestation of meningococcal meningitis, with only a few cases reported in the literature. In almost all previously reported cases, other clinical manifestations of meningitis, such as fever, headache, and neck stiffness preceded acute myelopathy. In this paper, we report a case of acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis, in the absence of other clinical manifestations of meningitis.
急性脊髓病伴突然截瘫是脑膜炎球菌性脑膜炎非常罕见的表现形式，文献中仅报道了少数几例。在几乎所有以前报道的病例中，脑膜炎的其他临床表现，如发热、头痛和颈部僵硬，均先于急性脊髓病。本文报告了一例以急性脊髓病伴突然截瘫为唯一表现形式的脑膜炎球菌性脑膜炎，无其他脑膜炎的临床表现。
