To report the association between SARS-CoV-2 and Anti- N -Type Calcium Channel antibody positive, EEG MRI-negative encephalitis with a treatment response to plasmapheresis. Postinfectious neuropsychiatric complications are common but pathogenesis remains poorly understood. We case of autoimmune subacute onset after SARS-CoV -2infection positive cerebrospinal fluid serology for Anti-N-Type-Calci...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic continues to overwhelm global healthcare systems. While the disease primarily causes pulmonary complications, reports of central nervous system (CNS) involvement have recently emerged ranging from encephalopathy stroke. This raises a practical dilemma for clinicians as when pursue neuroimaging and lumbar tap with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis in patients neur...

The microhaemagglutination assay for Treponema pallidum antibodies (MHA:TP-CSF), the Veneral Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL-CSF), and the fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-CSF) tests were used to detect treponemal antibodies in 3157 samples of cerebrospinal fluid from patients with syphilis, with neurological, metabolic, or immunological disorders, and with undetermined diagnoses. An agre...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure and composition are generally thought to be homogeneous within small limits throughout all CSF compartments. CSF sampled during lumbar puncture therefore should be representative for all CSF compartments. On the basis of clinical findings, histology and biochemical markers, we present for the first time strong evidence that the subarachnoid spaces (SAS) of the...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak or shunt overdrainage is a well-known cause of orthostatic headaches and low CSF pressures. We report two cases of orthostatic headache with pneumocephalus on brain imaging. The orthostatic headache developed after drainage of spinal operation site and epidural block. Brain MRI revealed characteristic findings of CSF hypovolemia including pachymeningeal enhancemen...

conclusions chronic meningitis in immunocompromised hosts can be due to more than one pathologic etiology and we should do all diagnostic evaluation to rule out all possible differential diagnosis. introduction cryptococcal meningitis is a rare disorder that is caused by cryptococcus neoformans in immunocompromised host. case presentation the case was a 64-year-old man with a history of stem ce...