Predictors of outcome in acute encephalitis

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 793-800

  Thakur, Kiran T ^a   Motta, Melissa ^a   Asemota, Anthony O ^a   Kirsch, Hannah L ^e   Benavides, David R ^a   Schneider, Eric B ^d,f   McArthur, Justin C ^a,c   Geocadin, Romergryko G ^a,b   Venkatesan, Arun ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins Encephalitis Center   (United States)

^b Critical Care Medicine Neurosurgery and Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN EDEMA; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BRAIN EDEMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884467842     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182a2cc6d     Document Type: Article

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