Steroids in Treatment of Viral Encephalitis

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-08-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

acute viral encephalitis is used to describe restricted CNS involvement (namely, involvement of the brain, sparing the meninges)

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Dexamethasone; Methylprednisolone; Methylprednisolone Acetate; Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate; Prednisolone; Prednisolone acetate; Prednisolone hemisuccinate; Prednisolone phosphate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pediatric patients who attending Neurology unit in Assiut University Children Hospital and diagnosed as viral encephalitis.

• Age 1month : 18 year .

• Both sexes.

• Diagnosis of viral encephalitis will be confirmed by clinical picture ,investigations and exclusion of other causes of encephalopathy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Autoimmune encephalitis

• Renal failure (any patient with abnormal renal function tests will be excluded)

• Hepatic failure ( any patient with abnormal liver function tests will be excluded)

• Metabolic disorders (any patient with abnormal level of ammonia and lactate )