Profile of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome Patients from South India.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Encephalitis is a major public health problem worldwide that causes huge emotional and economic loss to humanity. Encephalitis, being a serious illness, affects people of all ages. The aim is to describe the sociodemographic, clinical, etiological, and neuroimaging profile among 101 acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) patients visiting a tertiary neuro-specialty care hospital in India.

Methods

Record review of medical records of all patients attending neurology emergency and outpatient services at NIMHANS Hospital, diagnosed with AES in 2019, was conducted. Data were collected using standardized data collection forms for all cases in the study. Descriptive analyses (mean and standard deviation for continuous variables and proportions for categorical variables) wer

SUBMITTER: Suma R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10824229 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature