ALLMedicine™ Brain Abscess Center

Mar 15th, 2023 - History The development of clubbing usually is gradual enough that many patients are unaware of its presence; however, some patients may report swelling of the distal portion of the digits, which may be bilateral or unilateral or may involve a sin...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), also known as Osler-Weber-Rendu disease, is a rare disorder with a case prevalence as high as one in 5000, causing arteriovenous malformations in multiple organ systems. HHT is familial with autosomal d...

Mar 6th, 2023 - FDG-PET imaging is a promising imaging technique, which has the potential to overcome many of the shortcomings mentioned previously with regard to radiologic and scintigraphic methodologies. FDG is a diagnostic tracer utilized to measure the metab...

Mar 4th, 2023 - Brain abscess is a rare but life-threatening complication of meningitis. The purpose of this study was to identify clinical features and potentially relevant factors of brain abscess in neonates with meningitis. This study was a propensity score-m...

Mar 3rd, 2023 - Practice Essentials Pseudomonas aeruginosa has become an important cause of gram-negative infection, especially in patients with compromised host defense mechanisms. It is the most common pathogen isolated from patients who have been hospitalized ...

Mar 6th, 2023 - FDG-PET imaging is a promising imaging technique, which has the potential to overcome many of the shortcomings mentioned previously with regard to radiologic and scintigraphic methodologies. FDG is a diagnostic tracer utilized to measure the metab...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Transcatheter embolization has become the standard of care in the treatment of Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations (PAVMs). PAVM embolization is performed to prevent right to left shunting which puts patients at risk of stroke, brain abscess, hy...

Feb 17th, 2022 - Treatment of brain abscess remains a considerable challenge due to the precarious location of the infection and the impenetrability of the blood-brain-barrier for most drugs. Thus, cure usually requires a combination of neurosurgical evacuation of...

Oct 4th, 2021 - Brain abscess is a focal bacterial or fungal infection of the brain, which results in a pus-filled cavity within the brain parenchyma. The incidence is approximately 1/100 000 per year, and all age groups are affected. Treatment is neurosurgical d...

Jan 25th, 2021 - Central nervous system (CNS) infection is a common nervous system acute and severe disease, mainly manifested as encephalitis, meningitis and meningoencephalitis, but also manifested as brain abscess and brain granuloma et al. The basis for the di...

Sep 16th, 2022 - A CDC report found no evidence for any unusual uptick in brain-related complications of bacterial infection among children across the country recently. Hospitalization for brain abscesses and empyemas declined after the beginning of the COVID-19 p...

Apr 5th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Neuroendoscopy for the treatment of patients with brain abscesses has curative effects and is associated with less traum...

Mar 22nd, 2022 - The use of abdominal organs from COVID-19-positive donors for transplant was safe, a small study showed. No rejection occurred among four recipients who received liver, kidney, or pancreas transplants from four COVID-positive donors, and none of t...

Apr 27th, 2021 - One consequence of the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States may be an increase in the number of hemorrhagic strokes caused by infective endocarditis, research suggests. Intravenous drug use (IVDU) can cause this bacterial infection of the ...

Nov 13th, 2020 - The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to ibrutinib (Imbruvica) has a potential treatment for patients with chronic graft-versus-host-disease (cGVHD) after failure of one or more lines of systemic therapy, according to statements f...