What's the difference between encephalitis and encephalopathy?

Encephalitis


Definition:

  • (n.) Inflammation of the brain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
  • (2) A difference was observed in susceptibility of adult male and female mice to St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus as measured by the death rate after intravenous challenge.
  • (3) A 24-year-old man from rural Mississippi had a case of California encephalitis (CE) that evolved as a subacute encephalomyelitis.
  • (4) Experiments were conducted with the tick-borne encephalitis (TE) virus; confirmation of a protective action of cellular immunity in mice was obtained.
  • (5) Two placebo-controlled double-blind studies were initiated to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of 5-iodo-2-deoxyuridine (idoxuridine) in biopsy-provedcases of herpes simplex virus encephalitis.
  • (6) The first patient, together with a classical syndrome of hypertensive encephalopathy, had peculiar EEG features consistent with a possible diagnosis of herpes simplex encephalitis.
  • (7) Its nonstructural and capsid proteins are most closely related to those of eastern equine encephalitis virus while its glycoproteins are most closely related to those of Sindbis virus.
  • (8) Trichinella encephalitis remains a rare but life-threatening illness.
  • (9) A more detailed 3-year survey showed that pig farms positive for Japanese encephalitis antibody were detected at the same sites in Hiroshima near Sapporo as negative farms.
  • (10) The anti-Banzi viral factor inhibited the in vitro Banzi viral RNA synthesis but not that of Eastern equine encephalitis virus or of Japanese encephalitis virus.
  • (11) Hydrocephalus and encephalitis in 14-day-old mice was induced by an intracerebral inoculation of a high dose of live Newcastle disease vaccine viruses.
  • (12) Paired sera from 20 humans with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus infections and from 17 humans with western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus infections, all with previously demonstrated fourfold or greater rises or falls in hemagglutination-inhibiting, complement-fixing, or neutralizing antibody titers, were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG antibodies by an enzyme immunoassay.
  • (13) Data from 30 cases of perivenous encephalitis (PVE) associated with viral diseases reveal pathological changes ranging from lymphocytic cuffing of vessels to severe vasculitis similar to the vasculitis of AHL.
  • (14) The case is described of a 49-year-old man who developed cryptococcal meningo-encephalitis ten months before his death.
  • (15) became globally amnesic following an attack of Herpes Simplex Encephalitis.
  • (16) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
  • (17) We report two cases of cytomegalovirus (CMV) encephalitis in immunologically normal adults.
  • (18) Mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), a coronavirus, causes encephalitis and demyelination in susceptible rodents.
  • (19) Furthermore, in mice inoculated with rProHBmO143 and then inoculated with RVV harboring Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) gene 24-weeks later, no effect was recognized on duration of anti-HBs antibody persistence while anti-JEV antibody is being produced.
  • (20) The evidence points to the existence of two distinct clinical entities: 1) parkinsonism secondary to encephalitis lethargica, which had its greatest influence on the epidemiology of parkinsonism between 1920 and 1945; and 2) classic parkinsonism, which has undergone little change in the past hundred years.

Encephalopathy


Definition:

  • (n.) Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cerebral edema is a serious complication of the encephalopathy in fulminant hepatic failure.
  • (2) These measures excluded unfavourable lethal outcomes even in cases complicated by Gayet-Wernicke encephalopathy.
  • (3) Because this transport system in the choroid plexus is normally responsible for the excretion of the serotonin metabolite from the brain to the plasma, accumulation of endogenously produced organic acids in the brain, secondary to reduced clearance by the choroid plexus, could be a contributing factor in the development of encephalopathy in children with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency who have elevated levels of octanoic acid systematically.
  • (4) The resolution of this encephalopathy suggests that early changes of subacute necrotizing leukoencephalopathy are reversible and CT is copable of detecting these early changes.
  • (5) Multiple tuberculomas have simulated either an alcoolic encephalopathy in one case or a primitive cerebral tumour in another one.
  • (6) Földi succeeded in producing experimentally the syndrome of "lymphostatic encephalopathy and ophthalmopathy" by operative blockade of the cervical lymphatics in animals.
  • (7) The first patient, together with a classical syndrome of hypertensive encephalopathy, had peculiar EEG features consistent with a possible diagnosis of herpes simplex encephalitis.
  • (8) As with older children acute lead encephalopathy has serious consequences and in this series only 44 per cent of infants were thought to be neurologically normal at the time of discharge.
  • (9) These findings suggest significant differences in the pathophysiology of acute encephalopathy in CD and RS, although the clinical and laboratory findings during an episode of acute encephalopathy in the former are usually very similar to those in the latter.
  • (10) We also stress that clinicians should be aware of the possibility of Krabbe's disease in infants who display progressive encephalopathy and these CT findings.
  • (11) However, advances over the last 10 years in understanding the transport physiology and cell biology of the brain capillary endothelial cell now provide insights into the pathogenesis of such problems as brain glucopenia, hepatic encephalopathy, therapeutic efficacy of alpha-methyldopa, brain edema in diabetic ketoacidosis, Alzheimer's disease, brain tumors, and lupus cerebritis.
  • (12) Naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been recognised in sheep, man, mink, captive deer and cattle.
  • (13) Thirty of 32 patients (94%) with HIV encephalopathy had single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) findings that differed from the findings in 15 patients with non-HIV psychoses and 6 controls.
  • (14) It has been hypothesized that gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the principle inhibitory neurotransmitter of the mammalian brain, contributes to the neural inhibition of hepatic encephalopathy.
  • (15) ThDP-BP may be useful in clarifying the pathogenesis of Wernicke encephalopathy and Leigh's disease.
  • (16) Hyperammonemic encephalopathy in the urological patient is a rare but grave condition.
  • (17) In 2% hypertensive encephalopathy and convulsions occurred.
  • (18) A cat which developed a change of temperament, with muscle tremors, ataxia and pupillary dilatation was suspected and later confirmed histopathologically to have a spongiform encephalopathy.
  • (19) CSF DBI levels were maximally elevated 5-fold in patients with hepatic encephalopathy, but they were normal in those patients with liver disease not associated with changes in mental status and in patients with nonhepatic encephalopathy.
  • (20) The paper presents some mechanisms which determine or accompany cellular brain edema: intracellular and extracellular osmolality alteration, neuronal excitation, increased extracellular K+ concentration, anoxia, ischemia and hepatic encephalopathy.

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