Talk:Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

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The section on symptoms sounds dubious (was taken from House MD, which is not an accurate source of medical facts), not sure how it could be changed though. SSPE is really a rare disease. Exdisq13 20:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apparent contradiction[edit]

I don't see how "it is universally fatal in all occurrences" and "there is a 5% remission rate" can both be true. Eyu100^{(t|fr|Version 1.0 Editorial Team)} 07:47, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how there can be a "50% remission/improvement rate" with treatment "[r]egardless of the stage that the infection is at" if "stage 2...is universally fatal in all occurrences," so I have tagged the article with {{contradict-self}}. 71.163.176.158 (talk) 04:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that there are two paths that the disease can follow. I can be aggressive and death can occur within three months or it can take between one and three years to cause death, with a 5% remission rate. From what little I've read on the disease, which stage the patient is in influences outcome of the experimental protocols in use today, with stage one having a significantly better survival rate to those who are in stage two and whose outlookis dire. See http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/subacute_panencephalitis/subacute_panencephalitis.htm for some non-technical information on the disease.Wzrd1 (talk) 16:32, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Remissions are always temporal and invariably end in the final and fatal relapse. Probably, treatment post stage 1 only results into some temporal improvement, which does not affect prognosis. Ruslik_Zero 19:31, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fatal?[edit]

The article is not clear on whether SSPE is universally fatal.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 13:44, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]