That's because inflammation of the brain (encephalitis), surrounding membranes or spinal cord (meningitis) can occur.
Head injuries, encephalitis, abscesses, lack of oxygen, tumours, strokes, and toxic agents are the most common causes of cerebral edema.
Acquired causes of tics include drug-induced tics, head trauma, encephalitis, stroke, and carbon monoxide poisoning.
In patients with no MTS, only three patients presented late onset events such as head trauma, encephalitis and intracerebral bleeding.
In contrast, the age of the first preceding event such as birth trauma, febrile seizures, head trauma, encephalitis or first seizure in the absence of a preceding event was significantly different in the neuropathology groups.
Other hypotheses examine the association of the disorder with a past or present history of head trauma, epilepsy, encephalitis, severe hyperactivity, distractibility, anomalies in various brain structures, and learning disabilities.
We don't have polio here," said Glaser, then head of the encephalitis and special investigations section at the California Department of Public Health. .
Patients with substance abuse, mental retardation, epilepsy, history of head trauma or encephalitis and any other neurologic disorder were excluded.
Acquired adult forms of jactatio capitis have been described following herpes simplex encephalitis and head injury [4].
Hallmarks of clinical histories in MTS patients are the time point of a first event (i.e. febrile seizures, head or birth trauma, encephalitis, bleeding or first seizure onset), epilepsy duration and frequency of seizures [ 7, 18, 36].
