Vytautas Griška, Aistė Pranckevičienė, Jolita Pakalnienė, Diana Gabrijolavičiūtė, Malin Veje, Marie Studahl, Jacob Ahlberg, Lilly Schwieler, Lars Lindquist, Auksė Mickienė
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to characterise long-term neurological and neurocognitive sequelae after tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in adults. METHODS: 98 prospective consecutive TBE patients, classified by disease severity, were included. Immediate outcomes were evaluated with Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) and Rankin Scale (RS). After 6 and 18 months, long-term disability was evaluated using Modified Rankin Scale (MRS) and neurocognitive assessment was performed with Matrics Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB), measuring processing speed, attention/vigilance, working memory, verbal learning, visual learning, reasoning/problem solving and social cognition...
May 6, 2024: Infectious Diseases