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Presentation and Rehabilitation In A Patient With Toxoplasmosis Encephalitis: A Case Study and Review
Publication date: Available online 22 January 2016 Source:PM&R Author(s): Ryan Mattie, Zack McCormick, Henry Huie Toxoplasma gondii is an opportunistic infection that often presents in the setting of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The infection can cause severe and potentially fatal encephalitis due to the reactivation of latent infections in the setting of immune suppression. Diagnosing toxoplasmosis encephalitis in immunocompromised patients is often difficult because the signs and symptoms can be non-specific, but making a diagnosis of TE is even more challenging in a patient who is not known to...
Source: PMandR - January 22, 2016 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research

Neurological Effects of Monkeypox Largely Unknown, Review Finds
Much remains unknown about the long-term neurologic effects of monkeypox. In anarticle published today inJAMA Neurology, researchers from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and colleagues described how reports of complications from other orthopoxviruses, such as smallpox, may offer clues about the neurologic consequences of monkeypox.“Although the COVID-19 pandemic is the worst pandemic in a century, the recent past has seen several major pandemics, including Zika, Ebola, dengue, West Nile, and AIDS,” wrote B. Jeanne Billioux, M.D., of NINDS and colleagues. “A common thread to these p...
Source: Psychiatr News - September 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: febrile seizures/encephalopathy headache JAMA Neurology monkeypox neurological problems smallpox transverse myelitis Source Type: research