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Disease Information for Brain stem encephalitis
- Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Acute ataxia
- Altered mental status Mental status change
- Areflexia
- Ataxia
- Central Facial Paralysis
- Drowsiness/somnolence
- Facial weakness/droop, unilateral
- Flaccid muscle paralysis
- Headache
- Nystagmus
- Staggering Gait
- Biots apneustic/cluster/ataxic breathing
- Chronic Fatigue
- Fatigue
- Fatigue Tiredness Exhaustion
- Hypersomnia/Increased need for sleep
- Difficulty Focusing Eyes
- Diplopia Double vision
- Double Image Vision Confirmed
- True Vertigo Sign Confirmed
- Clinical Presentation & Variations
- Presentation/Ataxia in a Child Acute
- Demographics & Risk Factors
- Recent Event
- Recent/Viral illness
- Recent/Viral URI
- Laboratory Tests
- Abnormal Lab Findings (Non Measured)
- CSF abnormal
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- Anti-GQ1b Antibody
- Anti-Ma/Neuronal antibodies (Lab)
- CSF Pleocytosis/protein/NORMAL glucose
- Diagnostic Test Results
- Other Tests & Procedures
- Lumbar puncture/Increased CSF pressure/LP test
- Electrodiagnosis
- Electronystagmography Abnormal
- CT Scan
- MRI/Head Brain Abnormal
- Associated Diseases & Rule outs
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Acute Postinfectious cerebellitis
- Brain stem encephalitis syndrome
- Coma in Children
- Coma/Unconscious
- Encephalitis
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Ophthalmoplegia
- Progressive Bulbar palsy
- Pseudobulbar palsy syndrome
- Quadriparesis/quadriplegia
- Sleep apnea/central type
- Ataxia Disorder
- Disease Mechanism & Classification
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Reticular Activating System/PAS
- Process
- PROCESS/Allergy/collagen/autoimmune (category)
- PROCESS/Autoimmune disorder (ex)
- PROCESS/Post-infectious disorder (ex)
- Synonyms
- Synonym
- Brainstem encephalitis, Brainstem encephalitis (disorder), Encephalitis brain stem, Synonym/Bickerstaff brain stem encephalitis/BBE
- Definition
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Variant of encephalitis/long tract and posterior column disease occurs; some cerebellar signs;west nile virus more than others
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