Encephalitis is a rare condition characterized by brain inflammation. Causes of encephalitis include infections, medication toxicity, or immune disorders. Inflammation and swelling throughout the ...

After around 1 year MRI findings showed cortical swelling, with increased volume and T2 and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) signal, in the right precentral region of her brain.

The cause of the brain injury was likely due to an "acute over-hydration of water, leading to severely low sodium levels, causing swelling in the brain". Issues reported included a delay in the ...

Calcium channel blocker (CCB)-related edema is quite common in clinical practice and can effectively deter a clinician from continued prescription of these drugs. Its etiology relates to a ...

Postgraduate Medical Education Program, Department of Pediatrics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada Pathogenic CACNA1A mutations can result in paroxysmal attacks of encephalopathy, ...

The 24-year-old is the second person to die of the brain-swelling bug in the Indian state of Kerala in the space of a few months. The virus is passed from animals to humans and can result in ...

However two volunteers, and possibly a third, died as a result of dangerous swelling in the brain. Donanemab works in the same way as lecanemab, which created headlines around the world when it ...

The 56-year-old was bitten by a marmoset in July and passed away on August 27 after the disease left him with fatal inflammation in his brain and spinal cord. Rabies is a rare but serious ...

Unusually high levels of blood congestion in vessels feeding the brain may lead to severe swelling, scientists have found in a discovery that solves a longstanding malaria mystery: how the ...

Brain damage is any loss of cells in the brain. This is often because of injuries such as car crashes when a person’s head hits an object with a great force. The extent of the injury depends ...

The condition, which is carried by mosquitos, causes a fever and brain swelling and can lead to seizures and comas, killing around a third of those it infects. It's the state's first human case in ...