"starry-sky" appearance in rocky mountain spotted fever teaching neuroimages neurology...
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"Starry-sky" appearance in Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Teaching NeuroImagesNeurology
Resident and Fellow Section
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• A 7-year-old previously healthy female presented with high fever, headache, and a diffuse petechial rash.
• Serology confirmed Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a tick-borne disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii.
• The organisms disseminate hematogenously to the CNS and invade arterioles and capillaries, leading to inflammation and disruption of the blood-brain barrier.
Kontzialis et al.© 2015 American Academy of Neurology
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Kontzialis et al.
"Starry-sky" appearance in Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• Typical findings on MRI include periventricular and subcortical infarcts secondary to vasculitis, which tend to occur in a perivascular distribution, resulting in a starry sky appearance.
• Although highly suggestive in the appropriate clinical setting, similar imaging findings have been described in other viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections.1
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