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MeSH Heading: Acute Febrile Encephalopathy
Tree Number(s): C10.228.140.021
Unique ID: D000071072
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000071072
Scope Note: Acute onset of fever accompanied by seizures, cerebral inflammation and a change in mental status (e.g., confusion, disorientation, and coma).
Entry Term(s): Acute Encephalitis Syndrome; Encephalopathy, Febrile
Previous Indexing: Brain Diseases (1971-2016); Fever (1971-2016)
Public MeSH Note: 2017
History Note: 2017
Date Established: 2017/01/01
Date of Entry: 2016/06/29
Revision Date: 2016/02/26

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cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

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complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

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immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Acute Febrile Encephalopathy MeSH Descriptor Data 2025