Despite diagnostic advancements with the introduction of CT and later MRI, as well as better antimicrobial agents and neurosurgical procedures, brain abscess continues to be a serious, potentially ...

Despite improvements in medical and surgical management strategies, brain abscess continues to cause disability and mortality in affected individuals. The long-term predictors of survival in ...

M tuberculosis is more likely to cause tuberculomas than brain abscess, which usually mimics a solid tumor. [1] On steroids, the patient would be more likely to present with miliary disease rather ...

Researchers have created a predictive model for individualized prognostication in brain abscess patients A new predictive tool offers individualized survival estimates for patients with brain abscess ...

Amoebic encephalitis, caused by brain-eating amoebae in freshwater, is a rare but deadly infection with high fatality rates.

A nine-year-old girl who died at the medical college here two days ago was due to amoebic encephalitis, a rare brain infection caused by free-living amoeba in contaminated waters, health officials in ...

In a medical breakthrough described as the first of its kind globally, doctors at the Government Medical College Hospital here have successfully saved the life of a 17-year-old boy suffering from two ...

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A new device that monitors the waste-removal system of the brain may help to prevent Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases, according to a study published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Ten-year-old Southampton schoolboy Jaden Stewart, who overcame cancer, a stroke and brain surgery, has become the face of a ...

Brain abscess (BA) is a serious medical condition caused by localized infections in the brain. Usually, patients with BA have infection in the parenchyma—brain tissue that performs much of the organ’s ...