A Study on etiology, clinical features, diagnosis and prognosis in Acute Febrile Encephalopathy

To identify the etiology, clinical features, diagnosis and prognosis in patients with acute febrile encephalopathy a tertiary government general hospital in southern east India. Viral aetiology was more common cause of acute febrile encephalopathy and other aetiology like protozoal, fungal were rarely identified causes. Males were more commonly affected. Headache and fever were the most common clinical manifestations, neck rigidity, altered sensorium, seizures, focal neurologicial deficit was least common Viral encephalopathy was most common in our case study Septic encephalopathy was second most common Most of the patients recovered with good prognosis and few complication. Most common cause was viral meningitis- Herpes encephalitis, bacterial meningitis, cerebal malaria, tubercular meningitis, sepsis associated encephalopathy, typhoid encephalopathy, protozoal meninigitis were also seen