Acute Postviral Encephalopathy

Acute Postviral Encephalopathy

The authors report a case of fatal acute encephalopathy following influenza infection, with slightly atypical pathological and imaging findings. A healthy 8-year-old boy with probable recent influenza A/B infection admitted for refractory seizures was placed on phenobarbital coma and later developed hemodynamic instability. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed bilateral cerebral and cerebellar w...

Acute bilirubin encephalopathy in healthy term neonates requiring exchange transfusion

Intruduction: There is a growing concern about an increasing bilirubin-induced neurological dysfunction (BIND) in healthy term neonates with no evidence of hemolytic disease or other risk factors. This study was done to determine the incidence of BIND in otherwise healthy, breast-fed newborn term infants without hemolysis who underwent exchange transfusion.   Methods: This study was conducted i...

Postviral fatigue syndrome.

An acute, progressive encephalopathy.

Rabies holds the distinction of having the highest case-fatality ratio of any infectious disease. Aggressive public health campaigns have reduced the incidence of this disease in the United States to a record low. We report a case of this increasingly rare disease in a 70-year-old man in Wisconsin.

Acute hyperammonaemic encephalopathy

Peng Soon Ng1,*, Choie Cheio Tchoyoson Lim2 and Nigel CK Tan1 Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore and Department of Neuroradiology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore *Correspondence address. Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore 308433. Tel: þ65-63577171; Fax: þ65-63577137; E-mai...