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postencephalitic

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postencephalitic
occurring after or as a consequence of encephalitis.


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Other complications of influenza include: * Cardiac Problems: myocarditis (inflammation of the cardiac tissues) and pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardial sac); * Pulmonary Problems: besides pneumonias, may include worsening of chronic lung diseases such as bronchitis, emphysema or asthma; * Central Nervous System Problems that include encephalitis, postencephalitic Parkinson's disease, Guillain-Barre syndrome, and possibly amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
6) Other causes of trigeminal trophic syndrome include sensory denervation of the trigeminal nerve (4) by intracranial neoplasms, (2,4,5) intracranial surgery, (14) trauma, (12) postencephalitic Parkinsonism, syringobulbia, (5,6,11) craniotomy, (6) varicella, (2) herpes simplex (2,4,5,20) or mycobacterial infection.
Epidemiologic studies have associated early-life viral infections to postencephalitic PD; case reports, on the other hand, tend to relate viral infections to the development of acute parkinsonism (Bhatt et al.
 
 
 
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