Affiliations: Department of Neurology, The Regional Pediatric
Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA,
USA | Department of Child Neurology, University of
California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Note: [] Correspondence: Dr. Sirisha Grandhe, Department of Neurology,
University of California, San Francisco, 350 Parnassus Ave., Ste. 500, San
Francisco, CA 94117, USA. Tel.: +1 661 805 3898; Fax: +1 415 353 3543; E-mail:
[email protected]
Abstract: Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacterium which frequently causes
respiratory symptoms but may present neurological complications. We report two
cases of pediatric patients with acute transverse myelitis as a complication of
silent infection with M. pneumoniae. To our knowledge, these are two unique
cases in which respiratory symptoms did not appear prior to onset of
neurological complications. We believe that clinicians may need to reevaluate
the existing diagnostic protocol of acute transverse myelitis and routinely
consider M. pneumoniae as a potential etiology.
Keywords: M. pneumoniae, acute transverse myelitis, children
