...Arpan Mitra; Nayana Bhuyan; Ankur Vivek; Akansha Jain; Vijaya Nath Mishra; Abhishek Pathak Introduction: Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is the leading cause of sporadic fatal encephalitis, typically presenting with temporal lobe abnormalities. It usually manifests as fever, headache, seizure...

...Naveenkumar Nallathambi; Shriganesh P. Naidu; Yogesh S; Balamanikandan P; Adithyan C; Navvin S; Hariharan Seshadri; Mohanapriya N; Suriya Prakash Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) encephalitis is characterized by viral entry into the brain, resulting in inflammation and a cascade...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2023 Baló concentric sclerosis Seizures Aphasia Encephalitis Diagnostic dilemma Baló’s concentric sclerosis (BCS) is an uncommon inflammatory and demyelinating variant of multiple sclerosis (MS) predominantly affecting...

... is to highlight the neurological manifestations of COVID-19 as it is still new to the medical world, and to emphasize the fact that the physicians have to be wary of the possibility that patients affected by COVID-19 can present with encephalitis. Only a few studies are available so far regarding the neurological...

... as well as brain MRI, cerebrospinal fluid, and laboratory tests led to the diagnosis of seronegative paraneoplastic autoimmune limbic encephalitis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case in literature of such association. This case also highlights an exceptionally favorable outcome, both...

... us to initiate treatment with high-dose steroids. Inflammatory markers remained elevated despite high-dose steroids which prompted additional work leading to a diagnosis of varicella-zoster encephalitis. Steroid treatment was quickly tapered off and treatment with acyclovir resulted...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Rapidly progressive dementia Voltage-gated potassium channel complex NMDAR Encephalitis Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Dementia is a syndrome of organic nature, in which...

...Takafumi Wada; Toru Yamamoto; Akihiko Ozaki Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) encephalitis is caused by initial infection or reactivation of EBV. In adults, the risk factors of EBV encephalitis include human immunodeficiency virus infection, immunosuppressant drugs, congenital immune deficiencies, post-stem...

..., and endocrine system. The incidence of these adverse events remains low for central nervous system effects. This article describes a case of atezolizumab-associated encephalitis in a patient with metastatic small cell lung cancer. [email protected] 8 06 2022 24 07 2022 20 9...

...Mayusa Mito; Kotaro Sakurai; Yuichi Nakamura; Azusa Nagai; Sho Seo; Keiko Tanaka; Ichiro Yabe; Ichiro Kusumi Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a group of inflammatory brain diseases that are characterized by prominent neuropsychiatric symptoms. Early therapeutic intervention is important for AE...

...-associated limbic encephalitis at a delay of 18 months after the start of nivolumab therapy (3 months after termination of a 15-month course of ICI treatment). Immunotherapy with steroids and immunoglobulins resulted in moderate neurological improvement. Over the next year, malignant pleural mesothelioma...

...Koji Obara; Tomoko Ono; Itaru Toyoshima In anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis, progressive cerebellar atrophy potentially leads to severe sequelae. We encountered a patient with anti-NMDAR antibody encephalitis who showed a decrease of blood flow in the cerebellum. A 15-year...

...Zina H. Stavitsky; Colin H. Nguyen; James Martin Johnston Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis (NMDARE) is an autoimmune form of encephalitis, first described in 2005 and now recognized as among the more common causes of encephalitis. While NMDARE can result in permanent neurologic...

... , Lizarraga   KJ , Merenda   A . A systematic review on the role of adjunctive corticosteroids in herpes simplex virus encephalitis: is timing critical for safety and efficacy?   Antivir Ther . 2014 ; 19 ( 2 ): 133 – 9 . 10.3851/IMP2683 24009096 1359-6535 21. Ryken   TC , McDermott   M...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Central nervous system Meningoencephalitis Meningitis Chronic meningitis Encephalitis Granulomatous disease Chronic necrotizing granulomatous meningoencephalitis New-onset neurological symptoms Chronic necrotizing...

...Aldo A. Mendez; Annaliese Bosco; Lama Abdel-Wahed; Kendra Palmer; Karra A. Jones; Annie Killoran An 88-year-old man presented with a 1-month history of altered mental status and seizures. His electrographic and imaging findings were suggestive of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE), for which he...

... Nigerian woman with mainly CNS manifestation of Lassa fever. She was admitted twice within 11 days because of persistent fever. A clinical diagnosis of acute LAV encephalitis was made because of a high index of suspicion and CNS involvement confirmed by positive reverse transcriptase polymerase chain...

... Encephalitis Autoimmune meningoencephalitis Anakinra Periodic fever syndrome Chronic meningitis, defined by at least 1 month of unresolved inflammation of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), is a difficult illness to diagnose and treat [ 1 ]. Regardless of cause, presenting symptoms can include headache...

..., with features strongly supporting the diagnosis of herpes virus encephalitis, but lacking any laboratory evidence of viral infection in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid. It showed also striking signal alterations in the thalamus, which got worse in the course of the disease. This report emphasizes...

...Adam C. Adler; Srinath Kadimi; Catherine Apaloo; Corina Marcu Introduction: Herpes simplex virus encephalitis (HSE) is an acute infection accompanied by significant morbidity and mortality with the diagnosis often made by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing. Case...