Long-Term Outcomes of Acute Encephalitis

Abstract

Researchers at the Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, reviewed medical records of 71 of 93 children who were treated for acute encephalitis at 5 weeks to 17 years of age in 2000-2004, using questionnaires and a structured telephone interview conducted with the parents.

Keywords

• acute encephalitis
• persisting symptoms
• postencephalitic epilepsy