Post-encephalitic syndrome

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Classification according to ICD-10
B94.1 Sequelae of viral encephalitis
F07.1 Post-encephalitic syndrome
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The postencephalitic syndrome is a reversible behavior change after a viral or bacterial infection of the brain (encephalitis).

The reversibility of the changes (reversibility) distinguishes this syndrome from organic personality disorders .

The - largely (see literature) - historical name arose in connection with an epidemic of sleeping sickness , in the course of which symptoms appeared that were summarized under this term.

Possibly the name corresponds to postencephalitic Parkinsonism ( Parkinson's disease ).

literature

  • L. Misić Majerus, O. Daković Rode, E. Ruzić Sabljić: [Post-encephalitic syndrome in patients with tick-borne encephalitis]. In: Acta medica Croatica: casopis Hravatske akademije medicinskih znanosti. Vol. 63, No. 4, October 2009, pp. 269-278, PMID 20034327 .
  • JM Mingo de Benito, M. Algora Garcia Moreno: [Post-encephalitic syndrome with preferential localization in the cerebello-rubrospinal system]. In: Acta pediatrica espanola. Vol. 8, No. 93, September 1950, pp. 1057-1067, PMID 14782981 .
  • DS Fairweather: Psychiatric aspects of the post-encephalitic syndrome. In: The Journal of mental science. Vol. 93, No. 391, April 1947, pp. 201-254, PMID 20265890 .
  • R. Russell: Post-encephalitic Syndrome. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Vol. 21, No. 4, February 1928, p. 549, PMID 19986280 , PMC 2102065 (free full text).
  • M. Barkas: Case for Diagnosis between Psychogenic Depression and the Post-encephalitic Syndrome. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Vol. 20, No. 5, March 1927, p. 632, PMID 19985692 , PMC 2101105 (free full text).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gomentor
  2. ^ ICD-10 code
  3. ↑ C. Allan: Awakenings. In: BMJ. 334, 2007, p. 1169, doi: 10.1136 / bmj.39227.715370.59 .
  4. ^ V. GH Evidente, K. A. Gwinn: Post-encephalitic parkinsonism. In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 64, 1998, p. 5, doi: 10.1136 / jnnp.64.1.5