Malignant catatonia

SC Mann, SN Caroff, EC Campbell - Movement disorder emergencies …, 2022 - Springer
Malignant catatonia (MC) is a life-threatening neuropsychiatric disorder that was reported
long before the introduction of modern antipsychotic drugs. A review of the world literature …

Rapidly progressive dementia: limitations in Africa

WP Howlett - Practical Neurology, 2022 - pn.bmj.com
The term rapidly progressive dementia refers to dementia (and excludes delirium) typically
developing over weeks or months, including those evolving in less than 1–2 years from …

Heidenhain variant of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: first reported case from East Africa

D Sokhi, F Yakub, K Sharma, S Waa… - … Medical Case Reports …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare prion disease that causes
rapidly progressive fatal neurodegeneration. The rarer Heidenhain variant of sCJD presents …

Fatal autoimmune anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis with poor prognostication score in a young Kenyan female

J Rakiro, D Sokhi - International medical case reports journal, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Auto-immune N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis (NMDARE) is a relatively recently
described cause of acute encephalopathy with very few reports from sub-Saharan Africa …

[PDF][PDF] an in-depth review and gap analysis of key variables affecting global disease burden

J Granerod, A Ellerington, N Davies, B Michael… - 2023 - encephalitis.info
Novel Infectious diseases have been emerging for thousands of years and will continue to
do so in the future as a result of climate change, rapid urbanization, changing land-use …

[PDF][PDF] Not Always an Infection: A Case Series of Immune-Mediated Encephalitis, Including the First Report of Hashimoto's encephalopathy From Sub-Saharan Africa

SE Chokote, G Lemdjo, L Ngarka… - … Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Encephalitis is a global health problem particularly frequent in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA),
where aetiologies are most often thought to be infectious despite the low microbiological …