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Encephalitis
Research in the area of encephalitis reported from T. Vandercam and colleagues
November 25th, 2008
"Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) has been observed in several cases after herpetic encephalitis (HE). ARN is a devastating ocular disease with a very disappointing visual outcome," researchers in Netherlands report. "Therefore, early recognition and diagnosis are crucial. To study the association between ARN and preceding neurologic illness, especially the co-occurrence of HE in patients with ARN; to compare the causal agent in ARN and HE; and to determine the visual outcome of ARN with HE vs ARN without HE. A retrospective study including ophthalmologic and neurologic follow-up together with virologic data of patients with ARN. Seven patients with ARN diagnosed with a...
Source: Virus Weekly (2008-11-25)
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