TY - JOUR
T1 - Imaging in Encephalitis
AU - Venkatesan, Arun
AU - Jagdish, Balaji
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart New York.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Despite recent advances in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for infectious and autoimmune encephalitis, the management of patients with suspected or confirmed encephalitis poses a great challenge to physicians. Neuroimaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, can play a crucial role in substantiating the diagnosis of encephalitis and eliminating clinical mimics of encephalitis from consideration. Moreover, characteristic neuroimaging patterns can aid in defining specific infectious and autoimmune etiologies. Volumetric and functional MRI, in particular, are being increasingly used to characterize outcomes following encephalitis and can shed light on brain reorganization and function after the acute phase of disease has resolved. Here, we discuss the uses of structural, functional, and PET neuroimaging in the clinical assessment of the acute and recovery phases of encephalitis.
AB - Despite recent advances in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for infectious and autoimmune encephalitis, the management of patients with suspected or confirmed encephalitis poses a great challenge to physicians. Neuroimaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, can play a crucial role in substantiating the diagnosis of encephalitis and eliminating clinical mimics of encephalitis from consideration. Moreover, characteristic neuroimaging patterns can aid in defining specific infectious and autoimmune etiologies. Volumetric and functional MRI, in particular, are being increasingly used to characterize outcomes following encephalitis and can shed light on brain reorganization and function after the acute phase of disease has resolved. Here, we discuss the uses of structural, functional, and PET neuroimaging in the clinical assessment of the acute and recovery phases of encephalitis.
KW - MRI
KW - autoimmune encephalitis
KW - infectious encephalitis
KW - outcomes
KW - prognosis
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U2 - 10.1055/s-0039-1687838
DO - 10.1055/s-0039-1687838
M3 - Article
C2 - 31378867
AN - SCOPUS:85070356824
SN - 0271-8235
VL - 39
SP - 312
EP - 321
JO - Seminars in neurology
JF - Seminars in neurology
IS - 3
ER -