leukoencephalitis

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Related to leukoencephalitis: Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis

leukoencephalitis

[¦lü·kō‚in‚sef·ə′līd·əs]

(medicine)

Inflammation of the white matter of the cerebrum.

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that eats you up inside," said Cheryl Gavin, whose son Kyle died on July 15 of acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis, which according to the National Institutes of Health is a rare, fatal form of encephalitis that attacks the central nervous system.

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The 2 adults were an immunocompetent 18-year-old man who had acute respiratory distress (2) and a 19-year-old man with acute lymphocytic leukemia who had measles pneumonia and acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis (1).