Hyponatremia was sometimes present, particularly in patients with encephalitis. CSF showed pleocytosis, usually with a predominance of lymphocytes. Protein was universally elevated. Glucose was ...

The authors in this study examined the CSF of 35 consecutive patients referred to CEP over a 6-month period in whom no known cause of presumed viral encephalitis was identified despite extensive ...

CSF cytology, Gram stain and culture, acid-fast stain and culture, fungus culture, PCR for TB, PCR for the virus (herpes simplex virus [HSV], varicella-zoster virus [VZV], Epstein–Barr virus [EBV], ...

The City Health Office (CHO) of San Fernando on Wednesday reported 14 suspected cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in seven barangays from January 1 t ...

Among these, Atezolizumab-induced encephalitis, aseptic meningitis ... and no paraneoplastic inflammation, and CSF culture for negative for bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasite (12, 63.1%).

and West Nile virus were negative, as were CSF culture, acid-fast bacilli and cryptococcal antigen tests. Blood and CSF autoimmune and paraneoplastic encephalitis antibodies were negative (including ...

Objectives A case of anti-NMDA receptor antibody encephalitis seen at a tertiary neurology centre complicating initial herpes simplex virus encephalitis (HSVE ... necessitating intubation. CSF was ...

The neurological features of this infection include headache, dizziness, anosmia, taste disturbances, cerebrovascular accident, Guillain-Barré syndrome, acute encephalitis and acute ... was within ...

Other investigations—for example, CSF examination—are rarely helpful ... cancer in about 20% of adults—it can also be seen in viral infections, drug overdose, and as part of a postinfectious ...

such as meningitis and encephalitis. In GBS, the CSF examination shows elevated protein, with normal or slightly raised CSF white blood cell (WBC) counts. GBS is usually a post-infectious (usually ...