A Clinical Study on Japanese Encephalitis with Psychiatric Manifestations

J Korean Neurol Assoc > Volume 1(1); 1983 > Article

Journal of the Korean Neurological Association 1983;1(1): 53-59.

정신증상을 주로 보인 일본뇌염의 임상적 고찰

정경천, 김현우

국립의료원 신경정신과.

A Clinical Study on Japanese Encephalitis with Psychiatric Manifestations

Kyung-Chun Jung, M.D., Hyun-Woo Kim, M.D.

Department of Neuropsychiatry, National Medical Center

Abstract

Twenty-one patients of the adult Japanese encephalitis, who had been admitted in National Medical Center during recent two years, were investigated to evaluate their epidemiological features and clinical courses. Male patients were more frequently affected than female, and forty-three percepts of patients were third decade. The peripheral leukocytosis and mild pleocytosis and non specific inflammatory findings in cerebrospinal fluid were observed, all case had positive titer in hemoagglutination inhibition test. The incidence of neuropsychiatric sequelas of Japanese encephaltis was about 67%, and among them speech disturbance was most frequent. Further epidemiological and microbiological studies should be necessary to evaluate the tendency of recent increment in incidence of adult type of Japanese encephalitis.