The aim of this study was to analyze the concentration changes of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) and the related inflammatory factors of pre-treatment and post-treatment in children with viral encephalitis, to examine the mechanism of NF-κB in the pathogenesis of child viral encephalitis. Twenty-two children with severe viral encephalitis, 13 children with mild viral encephalitis and 12 normal child...

Japanese encephalitis is a severe central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory disease caused by the mosquito-borne flavivirus, Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). In the current study we have investigated the immune responses against JEV in mice lacking expression of the chemokine receptor CCR5, which functions in activation and chemotaxis of leukocytes during infection. We show that CCR5 serves a...

OBJECTIVE To report the clinical and radiologic findings of children with NMDA receptor (NMDAR) antibodies and white matter disorders. METHOD Ten children with significant white matter involvement, with or without anti-NMDAR encephalitis, were identified from 46 consecutive NMDAR antibody-positive pediatric patients. Clinical and neuroimaging features were reviewed and the treatment and outco...

Introduction We present a case of 15 year-old boy diagnosed with Unspecified Personality and Beheavioral Disorder Due to Brain Damage from Human Herpes Virus-6 Encephalitis. Objectives To describe an Organic Behavioral secondary brain damage (HHV-6) Encephalitis in 11 childand review recent literature, order improve clinical practice. Methods Clinical report brief literature. A bibliographic re...

PURPOSE We aimed to study whether ketogenic diet (KD) therapy leads to resolution of super-refractory status epilepticus in pediatric patients without significant harm. METHOD A retrospective review was performed at Phoenix Children's Hospital on patients with super-refractory status epilepticus undergoing ketogenic diet therapy from 2011 to 2015. RESULTS Ten children with super-refractory ...

how to cite this article: hashemian s, ashrafzadeh f, akhondian j, beiraghi toosi m. epstein-barr virus encephalitis: a case report. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):107-110.     abstract many neurologic manifestations of epstein-barr virus (ebv) infection have been documented, including encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, transverse myelitis, and guillain-barre syndrome. these manifestation...

a six month old male hamster living in a colony of hamster in the animal house of urmia university, urmia, iran, was found with restlessness and circling signs. the clinical examination revealed symptoms and signs of encephalitis. therefore microbiological and histopathologic studies were conducted after euthanizing the animal. finally, the results of laboratory tests demonstrated listeria mono...

A large number of viruses can result in encephalitis. However, certain viruses are more prevalent in certain geographical regions. For example, Japanese encephalitis (JE) and dengue in South East Asia and West Nile in Middle East whereas Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) occurs all over the world without any seasonal or regional variation. Encephalitis can result in acute symptomatic seizures a...