Marked elevation of interleukin-6 in mild encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) associated with acute focal bacterial nephritis caused by Enterococcus faecalis

Brain and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 551-553

  Kometani, Hiroshi ^a   Kawatani, Masao ^a   Ohta, Genrei ^a   Okazaki, Shintaro ^a   Ogura, Kazumasa ^a   Yasutomi, Motoko ^a   Tanizawa, Akihiko ^a   Ohshima, Yusei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute focal bacterial nephritis; Corpus callosum; Cytokine; Encephalitis; Encephalopathy; Splenium

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLONIC SEIZURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DELIRIUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MILD ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH A REVERSIBLE SPLENIAL LESION; NEPHRITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; URETER DILATATION; URINE CULTURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENCEPHALITIS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEPHRITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901623100     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2013.07.012     Document Type: Article

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