SSPE

1. subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

Example Sentences

And a complication known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, may emerge from dormancy years later.

From Washington Post

When they extrapolated out from the relationship between the cases of measles and the cases of SSPE, they found that for children under a year, the rate was 1 in 600.

From New York Times

Babies younger than that can be infected with measles and later develop this complication, which is called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE.

From Washington Post

And SSPE, he said, is a “horrible disease.”

From Los Angeles Times

In SSPE, a defective measles virus “hides out” in the brain, then suddenly re-emerges in adolescence.

From Time