Discover how doctors diagnose encephalitis through exams, imaging, spinal taps, and lab tests, and why early treatment often begins before results are final. Finally, several novel viral detection methods have been described, which may improve the detection of the specific etiologies of cns infections (hongyan et al Meningitis and encephalitis remain important causes of morbidity and mortality. The filmarray meningitis/encephalitis panel is a multiplex polymerase chain reaction test capable of qualitatively detecting dna or rna of 14 pathogens (bacteria, viruses, and yeast) in approximately 1 hour from spinal fluid. Diagnostic tests used in encephalitis can be split into two broad categories Laboratory tests, which analyse samples from patients such as cerebrospinal fluid, blood, urine and other body fluids
Neuroimaging, including scans such as ct and mri or special tests such as eeg which record brain waves. Discover how doctors diagnose viral encephalitis using specialized tests Learn about the role of cerebrospinal fluid analysis, pcr, and serology in identifying this condition. Adem is a clinical diagnosis, supported by mri, but requires exclusion of several differential diagnoses including treatable viral encephalitis, and so an eeg may be requested.
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