all of which cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are invariably fatal, but other encephalopathies are reversible and can have a number of causes...
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases, are a group of progressive, incurable, and fatal conditions that are associated...
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Neonatal encephalopathy (NE), previously known as neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (neonatal HIE or NHIE), is defined as a encephalopathy syndrome...
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(type B), as its symptoms are similar to those encountered in other encephalopathies. To make the distinction, abnormal liver function tests and/or ultrasound...
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Wernicke encephalopathy (WE), also Wernicke's encephalopathy, or wet brain is the presence of neurological symptoms caused by biochemical lesions of the...
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Hashimoto's encephalopathy, also known as steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT), is a neurological condition...
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated trauma to the head. The encephalopathy symptoms can include behavioral...
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toxic encephalopathy, due to the associated structural CNS damage and direct functional impairment consequences. Subacute toxic encephalopathies are challenging...
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(February 2017). "Prion-like disorders and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: An overview of the mechanistic features that are shared by the various...
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Glycine encephalopathy is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of glycine metabolism. After phenylketonuria, glycine encephalopathy is the second most common...
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Hypertensive encephalopathy (HE) is general brain dysfunction due to significantly high blood pressure. Symptoms may include headache, vomiting, trouble...
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PMID 20196795. Guerrini, R; Aicardi, J (November 2003). "Epileptic encephalopathies with myoclonic seizures in infants and children (severe myoclonic epilepsy...
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Cerebral hypoxia (redirect from Hypoxic encephalopathy)
are generally termed hypoxic/anoxic injuries (HAI). Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a condition that occurs when the entire brain is deprived of...
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Acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE) or sometimes necrotizing encephalitis or infection-induced acute encephalopathy (IIAE) is a rare type of brain disease...
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Ethylmalonic encephalopathy (EE) is a rare autosomal recessive inborn error of metabolism. Patients affected with EE are typically identified shortly after...
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Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome (redirect from Encephalopathy subacute spongiform, Gerstmann-Sträussler)
world. It is, however, classified with the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) due to the causative role played by PRNP, the human prion protein...
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MELAS syndrome (redirect from Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes)
MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes) is one of the family of mitochondrial diseases, which also include MIDD...
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spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Although the cause of scrapie was not known back then, it is probably the first transmissible spongiform encephalopathy to...
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involved in maintaining position. Asterixis is associated with various encephalopathies due especially to faulty metabolism. The term derives from the Greek...
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Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome (MNGIE) is a rare autosomal recessive mitochondrial disease. It has been previously referred...
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HIV (redirect from HIV disease resulting in encephalopathy)
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency...
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), also known as reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (RPLS), is a rare condition in which...
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Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy (CSE) is a condition induced by long-term exposure to organic solvents, often—but not always—in the workplace, that...
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Kernicterus (redirect from Chronic bilirubin encephalopathy)
is not rapidly reduced, ABE quickly progresses to chronic bilirubin encephalopathy.[citation needed] CBE is a chronic state of severe bilirubin-induced...
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street'". bbc.co.uk. 31 October 2000. Encéphalopathies spongiformes transmissibles (parfois dénommées Encéphalopathies spongiformes subaiguës Transmissibles...
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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) is the combined presence of Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) and alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome (AKS [clarification needed])....
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Ohtahara syndrome (redirect from Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy)
et al. (2012). "Early-Onset Epileptic Encephalopathies: Ohtahara Syndrome and Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy". Pediatric Neurology. 47 (5): 317–23. doi:10...
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Uremia (redirect from Uremic encephalopathy)
disorders, asthenia, headache, confusion, fatigue, seizures, coma, encephalopathy, decreased taste and smell, hiccups, serositis Peripheral nervous system...
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with severe brain disorders (e.g. lissencephaly). IESS is an epileptic encephalopathy, a childhood epilepsy syndrome arising during infancy. It can often...
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Most documented cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy have occurred in many athletes involved in contact sports such as boxing, American football,...
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