Sentences with phrase «patients with encephalitis»

Conducting research, working in partnership with other researchers and providing educational and networking opportunities for those professionals involved in management of patients with encephalitis and / or its after - effects.

«The results of our study suggest that doctors evaluating patients with encephalitis should search for autoimmune causes in addition to infectious causes, given both have a similar frequency,» says Eoin Flanagan, M.B., B.Ch., senior author of the population - based study and an autoimmune neurology specialist at Mayo Clinic.

Infection remains an important concern when evaluating patients with encephalitis, notes Michel Toledano, M.D., one of the study's co-investigators and a neuro - infectious diseases specialist.

Not exact matches

Within a large group of 571 patients with confirmed Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis, only 23 patients (4 percent) had isolated psychiatric episodes.

«While many patients with Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis present with isolated psychiatric symptoms, most of these patients subsequently develop, in a matter of days, additional neurological symptoms which help to make the diagnosis of the disease.

Together with his colleagues, he turned to a brain - damaged patient called Roger who had suffered damage to the insula and ACC on both sides of the brain after suffering a serious bout of hepatic encephalitis.

To test whether Japanese encephalitis virus could be successfully identified from the samples, the researchers carried out a retrospective analysis on cerebrospinal fluid for patients tested for the virus between 2009 — 2015 in Laos, with a total of 132 samples containing sufficient fluid volume for testing.

Recently, Glaser has been sending Fulhorst blood samples from patients who died with undiagnosed, arenaviruslike symptoms, such as encephalitis and bleeding.

After infection, some healthy people experience a month or more of flu - like symptoms, but the disease can cause seizures and potentially fatal encephalitis in the immunocompromised, including patients receiving transplants, those with HIV / AIDS, cancer patients, the elderly, and young children.

It can cause serious complications including blindness, encephalitis, severe diarrhea, ear infections and pneumonia, particularly in children with nutritional problems and in immunocompromised patients.

Indeed, Cho has seen patients previously diagnosed with various psychiatric symptoms who turned out to have anti-NMDAR encephalitis and who recovered with immunotherapy.

The authors report a patient with Alzheimer disease (AD) without encephalitis who was immunized with AN - 1792 (an adjuvanted formulation of Abeta - 42).

Based on Oliver Sacks» 1973 memoir around his work with encephalitis patients and the successful usage of L - Dopa medication.

An important and probably best known example of a zoonotic viral disease from companion animals is rabies, which should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any patient presented with encephalitis in endemic areas.