Encephalitis Sentence Examples

Eastern equine encephalitis occurs in eastern and southeastern United States; western equine and California encephalitis occur throughout the West; and St. Louis encephalitis occurs throughout the country.

Equine encephalitis is carried by mosquitoes that do not normally bite humans but do bite horses and birds.

At the age of three, Luke suddenly became seriously ill with viral encephalitis of unknown origin.

Physicians may administer tests to rule out conditions other than fever that could have caused the seizure, such as epilepsy, meningitis, or encephalitis.

Children who have a neurological disorder or illness such as encephalitis or meningitis may suddenly show signs of cognitive impairment and adaptive difficulties.

The child shows symptoms of meningitis or encephalitis.

The most common complications are ear infection and diarrhea, although more serious complications can include pneumonia, meningitis, or encephalitis.

Called encephalitis, this condition can occur up to several weeks after the basic measles symptoms have resolved.

Long-term problems following recovery from measles encephalitis may include seizures and mental retardation.

Serious infections that affect the brain directly, such as meningitis and encephalitis, may cause irreversible damage to the brain, leading to CP.

The mumps infection can spread into the brain causing inflammation of the brain (encephalitis).

Symptoms of mumps encephalitis include the inability to feel pain, seizures, and high fever.

Encephalitis can occur during the parotitis stage or one to two weeks later.

Recovery from mumps encephalitis is usually complete, although complications, such as seizure disorders, have been noted.

Only about one person in 100 with mumps encephalitis dies from the complication.

A second study in Finland showed that the vaccine is also not associated with aseptic meningitis or encephalitis.

Such treatments are vaccine or immune globulin for hepatitis A, typhoid, meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, and rabies.

Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain, usually caused by a direct viral infection or a hypersensitivity reaction to a virus or foreign protein.

Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain in reaction of the body's immune system to infection or invasion.

The viruses causing primary encephalitis can be epidemic or sporadic.

Arthropod-borne viral encephalitis is responsible for most epidemic viral encephalitis.

The most common form of non-epidemic or sporadic encephalitis is caused by the herpes simplex virus, type 1 (HSV-1) and has a high rate of death.

Approximately 2,000 cases of encephalitis are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, each year.

Encephalitis can strike anyone, at any age, although some kinds of encephalitis are more common in children.

Other kinds of encephalitis can affect anyone, but may affect children more severely.

There are more than a dozen viruses that can cause encephalitis, spread by either human-to human contact or by animal bites.

Encephalitis may occur with several common viral infections of childhood.

Secondary encephalitis may occur with measles, chickenpox, mumps, rubella, and EBV.

In rare cases, encephalitis may follow vaccination against some of the viral diseases listed above.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a very rare brain disorder caused by an infectious particle called a prion, may also cause encephalitis.

Mosquitoes spread viruses responsible for equine encephalitis (eastern and western types), St. Louis encephalitis, California encephalitis, and Japanese encephalitis.

Lyme disease, spread by ticks, can cause encephalitis, as can Colorado tick fever.

Rabies is most often spread by animal bites from dogs, cats, mice, raccoons, squirrels, and bats and may cause encephalitis.

Japanese encephalitis and St. Louis encephalitis are also carried by mosquitoes.

Japanese encephalitis does not occur in the United States but is found throughout much of Asia.

The viruses responsible for these diseases are classified as arbovirus, and these diseases are collectively called arbovirus encephalitis.

Herpes simplex encephalitis, the most common form of sporadic encephalitis in western countries, is a disease with significantly high mortality.

Herpes simplex encephalitis is responsible for 10 percent of all encephalitis cases and is the main cause of sporadic, fatal encephalitis.

The symptoms of herpes simplex encephalitis are fever, rapidly disintegrating mental state, headache, and behavioral changes.

Diagnosis of encephalitis includes careful questioning to determine possible exposure to viral sources.

Choice of treatment for encephalitis depends on the cause.

Viral encephalitis is usually treated with antiviral drugs, including acyclovir, ganciclovir, foscarnet, ribavirin, and AZT.

Viruses that respond to acyclovir include herpes simplex, the most common cause of sporadic (non-epidemic) encephalitis in the United States.

The symptoms of encephalitis may be treated with a number of different drugs.

A person with encephalitis must be monitored carefully, since symptoms may change rapidly.

Most cases of encephalitis are mild, and recovery is usually quick.

Mild encephalitis usually leaves no residual neurological problems.

Some forms of encephalitis have more severe courses, including herpes encephalitis, in which mortality is 15 to 20 percent with treatment, and 70 to 80 percent without.

Antiviral treatment is ineffective for eastern equine encephalitis, and mortality is approximately 30 percent.

Because encephalitis is caused by infection, it may be prevented by avoiding the infection.

Vaccines are available against some viruses, including polio, herpes B, Japanese encephalitis, and equine encephalitis.

Japanese encephalitis vaccine is recommended for those traveling to Asia and staying in affected rural areas during transmission season.

Adequate nutrition and fluids improve the chances for a full recovery from encephalitis.

Although it is approved only for children over the age of six months, the drug has been used for newborn infants with encephalitis.

Rare cases of encephalitis or meningoencephalitis have also been reported.

These may be signs of Reye's syndrome or encephalitis, two rare but potentially dangerous conditions.

Other reactions, such as a low blood count or brain involvement, including encephalitis, occur so rarely that they may not be associated with VZV.

The most serious risk to the infant is the possibility of developing HSV-2 encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain, with symptoms of irritability and poor feeding.

Encephalitis occurs in one out of 6000 cases; 20 percent of these infections are fatal.

Learning difficulties may also be caused by such medical conditions as a traumatic brain injury or brain infections such as encephalitis or meningitis.

A lumbar puncture (spinal tap) may be needed to rule out other possible causes, including meningitis or encephalitis.

The third generation drugs, cefotaxime, ceftizoxime, ceftriaxone, and others, cross the blood-brain barrier and may be used to treat meningitis and encephalitis.

They can cause the transmission of West Nile Virus, yellow fever, dengue fever, malaria and encephalitis, among other very serious conditions.

Some extreme complications can occur with this common childhood disease, including Aseptic meningitis and encephalitis.

But hey, I always did love a challenge and boy oh boy, did I get a biggie with encephalitis!

What is the best standard of care for patients affected by encephalitis?

Visitors to forested areas should seek medical advice about immunization against tick borne encephalitis.

In the normal brain, herpes simplex virus can cause encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain which is potentially fatal.

Respondents were given a list of 23 problems potentially experienced by people who have contracted encephalitis.

Keep your stress levels down A common concern following encephalitis is an apparent return of symptoms.

The risk of developing vaccine-related encephalitis is extremely small in comparison to the health risks associated with the diseases that vaccines prevent.

Finally, the doctors told me I had encephalitis.

More critical was the fever from the viral encephalitis raging in her brain.

They are Western, Eastern and Venezuelan equine encephalitis, or WEE, EEE and VEE respectively.

Her doctor, Dr. Green, diagnosed herpes simplex encephalitis.

In two patients from southern Viet Nam, the clinical diagnosis was acute encephalitis; neither patient had respiratory symptoms at presentation.

The doctors told us Lauren was suffering from herpes simplex encephalitis.

We describe the memory functioning of a professional musician who became amnesic following herpes simplex virus encephalitis in 1985.

The intracerebral inoculation of mice with herpes simplex virus produces lesions similar to those seen in the human herpes simplex viral encephalitis.

The following day, he was electively intubated for airway protection and started on treatment for possible tetanus and herpes encephalitis.

Infections during pregnancy, e.g. rubella or encephalitis, can also lead to cp.

Encephalitis is an often life-threatening illness caused by infection, usually viral, or by autoimmune diseases affecting the brain.

Although only one in 1,000 patients with measles will develop encephalitis, 10 to 15 percent of those who do will die, and about another 25 percent will be left with permanent brain damage.

Because of the rarity of Reye's syndrome, it is often misdiagnosed as encephalitis, meningitis, diabetes, or poisoning, and the true incidence may be higher than the number of reported cases indicates.

Primary encephalitis is caused by direct infection by the virus, while secondary encephalitis is due to a post-infectious immune reaction to viral infection elsewhere in the body.

In secondary encephalitis, symptoms usually begin five to ten days after the onset of the disease itself and are related to the breakdown of the myelin sheath that covers nerve fibers.

Using the term "narcolepsy" to mean all disorders that caused daytime sleepiness, this included illnesses that were not actually sleep disorders such as lethargic encephalitis.

An increase in WBCs may occur in many conditions, including infection (viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic), allergy, leukemia, hemorrhage, traumatic tap, encephalitis, and Guillain-Barré syndrome.

An infection of the membrane covering the brain (meningitis) or an inflammation of the brain itself (encephalitis) cause swelling that in turn may cause brain damage and mental retardation.

A brain biopsy (surgical gathering of a small tissue sample) may be recommended in some cases in which treatment has thus far been ineffective and the cause of the encephalitis is unclear.

These illnesses include pneumonia and inflammations of the liver (hepatitis), brain (encephalitis), esophagus (esophagitis), large intestine (colitis), and retina of the eye (retinitis).