Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy in Children: a Long Way to Go

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Novel Human Reovirus Isolated from Children with Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy

For many encephalitis cases, the cause remains unidentified. After 2 children (from the same family) received a diagnosis of acute necrotizing encephalopathy at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (Tours, France), we attempted to identify the etiologic agent. Because clinical samples from the 2 patients were negative for all pathogens tested, urine and throat swab specimens were added to epithelia...

Acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood.

Symmetric change of the entire area of the bilateral thalami, as with panthalamic lesions, plus involvement of other regions in the brain rarely occurs to previously healthy children. The term, acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood, has recently been proposed. Its clinical, radiological, and pathological features are described. This disease predominantly affects infants and young childr...

acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood(anec): a case report

acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood (anec) is a specific type of encephalopathy. after viral infection, it  can be diagnosed by bilateral symmetrical lesions that are predominantly observed in thalami & brainstem of infants & children. although, it is commonly occurred in japanese and taiwanese population. the goal of this article is to report a rare case of anec in  north part of ira...

Quinidine in Brugada Syndrome: Still a Long Way to Go….

S ince Brugada syndrome was identified in 1992, its therapeutic management of patients has presented a great challenge for clinicians. In this issue of Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Belhassen et al 2 suggest both risk strati-fication of arrhythmia and therapeutic improvements using electrophysiological study (EPS) and quinidine. Although gradual progress in risk stratification a...