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Case Report of Weston Hurst Syndrome (P7.031)

2014· article· en· W2271336432 on OpenAlexaff
Rick Magun, John Provias

Bibliographic record

VenueNeurology · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicInfectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis
Canadian institutionsHamilton General Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHurst exponentMedicineMathematicsStatistics

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: Here we report full autopsy results of a 27 year old male who initially developed an acute respiratory infection and subsequently developed hemorrhagic necrosis and edema in the right hemisphere of his brain secondary to acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalopathy. BACKGROUND: Acute Hemorrhagic leukoencephalopathy (AHLE) or Weston Hurst Syndrome is a rare, acute disorder characterized diffuse hemorrhagic necrosis of arterioles and/or by perivascular demyelination in the CNS. It is thought to represent a hyper-acute form of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). AHLE is relatively rare and has a very poor prognosis, with rapid deterioration and death usually occurring within days to one week after onset of symptoms. The cause for AHLE is unclear. RESULTS: We present brain histology results which showed punctate, ring shaped foci of perivascular hemorrhage and edema, localized to the white matter on H&E stain. This was surrounded by inflammation of both acute (neutrophil reaction) and chronic reaction (macrophages). There was multicentric fibrinoid necrosis within smaller arteriolar type vessels with surrounding edema noted in the right hemisphere. Post mortem CSF negative for mycoplasma pneumonia and Legionella by PCR. Cold Agglutinins were positive. Autopsy revealed active multifocal myocarditis, predominantly neutrophilic and a left lower lobe lung infection. CONCLUSIONS: The results thoroughly illustrate a severe post-infectious autoimmune reaction of a yet to be identified antigenic trigger leading to immune-complex deposition in walls of arterioles and venules which activates compliments and leads to vessel wall necrosis. The associated perivascular edema and/or demyelination ultimately led to death of the patient. The autopsy results confirmed lung infection and myocarditis. Given cold agglutinins were positive and the results of CXR showed atypical pneumonia, certainly mycoplasma pneumoniae is strongly suggested as the infectious cause in this case. This is the first case report strongly suggesting Mycoplasma pneumoniae as the cause for AHLE.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.085
Threshold uncertainty score0.368

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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