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Overview
Symptoms of brain abscesses may develop slowly, over a period of 2 weeks, or they may develop suddenly. The most common symptoms include fevers, headaches, and other neurological problems. These usually occur in 20% of patients.[1]
Symptoms
Symptoms for brain abscesses include:[2][3]
- Altered mental status
- Aphasia
- Ataxia
- Confusion
- Decreased movement
- Decreased sensation
- Decreasing responsiveness
- Drowsiness
- Dysarthria
- Hemiparesis
- Eventual coma
- Fever and chills
- Headache
- Inattention
- Irritability
- Loss of coordination
- Loss of muscle function
- Nausea
- Seizures
- Slow thought processes
- Visual disturbance
- Vomiting
References
- ↑ Brouwer, MC; Coutinho, JM; van de Beek, D (Mar 4, 2014). "Clinical characteristics and outcome of brain abscess: systematic review and meta-analysis.". Neurology 82 (9): 806–13. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000000172. PMID 24477107
- ↑ Ferri, Fred (2015). Ferri's clinical advisor 2015 : 5 books in 1. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier/Mosby. ISBN 978-0323083751.
- ↑ Nath A. Brain abscess and parameningeal infections. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007: chap 438.