The wife of a man who was diagnosed with a brain abscess has thanked doctors for realizing quickly how serious the situation ...
A total of 102 patients were diagnosed with brain abscess between January 1994 and April 2009. Median age was 47 years and 65% were male. This yields an estimated incidence of 0,4/100.000/year. Table ...
A brain abscess is a life-threatening disease with a morbidity of 1 in 100,000 people in the U.S. The mortality of a brain abscess was 30% to 60% in the early 1970s, but it has decreased to 0% to 24% ...
Six months prior, Fothergill woke up to a different view: one of hospital room walls and fluorescent lights. Less than 24 hours before, he was rushed to the University of Alabama at Birmingham ...
Graham Bell, 61, opened up about being diagnosed with a life-threatening brain abscess, which he contracted via a cracked tooth He wound up having a "life-saving brain surgery," after "a mass in [his] ...
Brain abscesses represent a serious focal infection of the brain parenchyma that may arise from a variety of sources including contiguous spread from otorhinogenic or odontogenic infections, ...
When Eric Markowitz suddenly began feeling a bit nauseous in January 2023, he thought it was just a bug. But within a day, his symptoms became severe. The scariest part was the vertigo, he recalls.
The baby was suffering from a stubborn form of hydrocephalus (water on the brain): spinal fluid, collecting in his skull cavity, caused his head to enlarge and threatened to squeeze the brain so that ...
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