Acute Viral Encephalitis

Acute Viral Encephalitis

Encephalitis means inflammation of the brain. Acute encephalitis associated with viral infections includes two distinct clinical-pathological diseases. The form referred to simply as acute viral encephalitis is direct infection of neural cells with perivascular inflammation, neuronal destruction, neuronophagia, and tissue necrosis, and this pathology is centered primarily in the gray matter. Th...

[Acute viral encephalitis].

Viral encephalitis remains a significant public health problem world wide including Bangladesh. Its transmission is either from insect or environmental vectors or from human-to-human contact. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis, viral studies, and various imaging techniques provide sensitive and specific methods to detect many of these viral pathogens. Rapid diagnosis of encephalitis allows early inte...

Viral Encephalitis Mimicking Acute Psychosis

Viral Etiological Factors Causing Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) In Gaya Division, India

Background: From Gaya and adjoining regions, the trend in patients admitted with acute neurological illness was investigated. Illnesses were identified as sudden outbreaks of Japanese virus encephalitis (JE), Herpes simplex virus encephalitis (HSV-1&2), and other acute encephalitis syndrome (AES). Objective: In the current study, an investigation was carr...

Prognostic indicators of childhood acute viral encephalitis.

OBJECTIVE To devise a set of clinical signs and laboratory parameters that would help clinicians assess prognosis in patients and plan appropriate management. METHODS Medical records of 147 paediatric cases (with a discharge diagnosis of acute viral encephalitis) admitted over a ten year period from 1987 to 1997 were reviewed and relevant information collected on a data extraction form. RES...