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Meningitis due to Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada

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Link to WHO Definition

Meningitis due to Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1397399153

Inflammation of the meninges due to Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome. The syndrome is clinically characterised by headache, neck stiffness, fever and photophobia. Other clinical features of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, including ophthalmic, dermatological such as depigmentation of eyebrows, eyelashes and scalp hair and other neurological manifestations including sensorineural hearing loss, cranial nerve palsies, transverse myelitis and neuropsychiatric changes may be present. Diagnosis may be confirmed by ophthalmological assessment, neuroimaging and spinal fluid analysis which may reveal a lymphocytic pleocytosis and raised protein.