My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn’t been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating ...
My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn’t been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating well), and ...
Commonly found viruses such as the parvovirus B19 (PVB19) can cause serious brain infections like encephalitis, said ...
Brain Disease Encephalitis: The Silent Inflammation That Can Change Everything: By Aarushi Bose When the brain becomes inflamed, even simple functions can turn uncertain. Brain disease encephalitis ...
The diagnosis is made by finding the antibody in cerebrospinal fluid after a lumbar puncture (“spinal tap”). Antibodies that ...
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis, caused by HSV types 1 and 2, is the most common sporadic viral encephalitis worldwide, with an annual incidence of around 2·2–4·6 per million people.1 Before ...
A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for encephalitis (brain inflammation), caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) does not ...