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How are brain infections of other types normally diagnosed?
by andai 3y ago
How are brain infections of other types normally diagnosed?
- haldujai 3y agoIt depends on what type of infection we are worried about and what structures are involved but generally an MRI and a lumbar puncture for cerebrospinal fluid analysis to start. If there's an abscess a neurosurgeon can stick a needle/drain in it. Usually a combination of clinical and MRI findings is enough for infectious diseases and neurology specialists to figure it out and start empiric treatment for something/a few somethings if the CSF doesn't give you the answer. Rarely, at least at my institution, you could do a biopsy but you don't really want to be chopping up the brain if you can avoid it.
- onemoresoop 3y agoAnd are there any particular worrying symptoms for this type of brain fungal infections?
- Zelphyr 3y agoI can't speak to what's common but, with my dad it was he was increasingly confused, constantly tired and sleeping all the time, and progressive weight loss. He was down to 100lbs when they admitted him.