Background: ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI ) are common types of acute coronary syndrome which are associated with the risk factors of age, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. Objective: The present study aimed to examine the effects of age on the risk factors and clinical sym...

Encephalitis is a clinical syndrome commonly caused by emerging pathogens, which are not under surveillance in Australia. We reviewed rates of hospitalization for patients with encephalitis in Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, from January 1990 through December 2007. Encephalitis was the primary discharge diagnosis for 5,926 hospital admissions; average annual hospitalization ra...

Encephalitis is the most frequent neurological complication of measles virus infection. This review examines the pathophysiology of measles infection and the presentations, diagnosis and treatment of the four types of measles-induced encephalitis including primary measles encephalitis, acute post-measles encephalitis, measles inclusion body encephalitis and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. ...

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...

Congenital cytomegalovirus infection is the most common congenital infection, occurs in 0.6-5% of newborns worldwide, and considered leading non-genetic cause sensorineural hearing loss children. Most with a manifest form disease develop psychomotor cognitive disorders, about half them visual impairment. The purpose publication: to present clinical case severe period multisystem manifestations ...

Current re-emergence of Nipah virus (NiV) in India caused 11 deaths so far and many patients were kept in quarantine. A thorough study of previous outbreaks occurred in Malaysia, Bangladesh and India represents cases with high rate of fatality due to acute encephalitis. Our work involves genome analysis of NiV for prediction of miRNAs and their targeted genes in human in order to understand enc...

Acute encephalitis and postinfectious encephalopathy have been reported infrequently in association with influenza A and B virus infections. We report herein a case of a 6-year-old girl with acute influenza B virus encephalitis resulting in neurological sequelae. The diagnosis was made by isolation of influenza B virus from the nasopharynx, seroconversion to influenza B, and reverse transcripti...

Abstract Introduction: Toxoplasmosis is a disease of global distribution caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which develops differently depending on immunologic status patient. In immunocompetent patients, it usually asymptomatic and complications such as pneumonitis, encephalitis, or multiple organ dysfunction are rare. The following case an patient with acute disseminated toxoplasmosis....

PURPOSE Infectious mononucleosis (IM) complicated with a neurological manifestation, including acute cerebellar ataxia, Guillain-Barre syndrome, meningitis, encephalitis, cranial nerve palsies, optic neuritis or transverse myelitis, has been rarely reported; however, IM complicated with acute cerebral infarction has never been reported in the literature. CASE REPORT A 49-year-old man with dia...

heparin has an unpredictable pharmacokinetics and the responses of individuals may vary distinctly. therefore, different dosing nomograms have been proposed. the aim of this study was to compare two prevalent nomograms to adjust heparin doses in hospitalized patients with acute coronary syndrome.  one hundred and forty patients received heparin infusions based on one of two nomograms. group 1 r...