Acute encephalopathy and encephalitis caused by influenza virus infection

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-311

  Wang, Gefei F ^a   Li, Weizhong ^a   Li, Kangsheng ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Acute encephalopathy and encephalitis; Acute necrotizing encephalopathy; Influenza; Influenza associated acute encephalopathy encephalitis

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CD40 LIGAND; CREATININE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; OSELTAMIVIR; RAN BINDING PROTEIN 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ULINASTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE BRAIN DISEASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA ASSOCIATED ENCEPHALITIS; INFLUENZA ASSOCIATED ENCEPHALOPATHY; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE;

BRAIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 77951969872     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e328338f6c9     Document Type: Review

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