Neuroinfectious Disease Emergencies

Abstract

Neuroinfectious diseases can affect immunocompetent and immunosuppressed individuals and cause a variety of emergencies including meningitis, encephalitis, and abscess. Neurologic infections are frequently complicated by secondary injuries that also present emergently such as cerebrovascular disease, acute obstructive hydrocephalus, and seizure. In most cases, timely recognition and early treatment of infection can improve the morbidity and mortality of infectious neurologic emergencies.

Keywords: Acute flaccid myelitis; Encephalitis; Meningitis; Neurologic emergency; Neurologic infections; Stroke.