- In medicine,
pleocytosis (or pleiocytosis) is an
increased cell
count (from Gr**** pleion, "more"),
particularly an
increase in
white blood cell count...
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Since herpes infections often lead to
pleocytosis,
aciclovir and
valacyclovir are
commonly prescribed. When
pleocytosis is the
result of an
autoimmune response...
-
prodromal phase,
cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis is
found in more than 80% of cases, with
mainly lymphocytes. This
pleocytosis resolves in
about 8 w****s even...
- not
explained by previously-known
seizure disorder Cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis Magnetic resonance imaging suggestive of
encephalitis Seizures not explained...
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usually caused by
Borrelia garinii and
almost always involves lymphocytic pleocytosis, i.e. the
densities of
lymphocytes (infection-fighting cells) and protein...
- The
presence of
white blood cells in
cerebrospinal fluid is
called pleocytosis. A
small number of
monocytes can be normal; the
presence of granulocytes...
-
scans are
usually normal in
cases of VZV
reactivation in the CNS. CSF
pleocytosis,
previously thought to be a
strong indicator of VZV encephalitis, was...
- the
meninges persisting for more than 4 w****s
being ****ociated with
pleocytosis in the
cerebrospinal fluid",
cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities may not...
- the
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) (> 100 mg/dl), as well as an
occasional pleocytosis of 10 to 100 cells,
mostly lymphocytes.
Malignant cells carried in the...
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protein levels and
pleocytosis are
frequent but non-specific. It was
originally thought that
raised CSF
protein without pleocytosis ('albuminocytological...
