NCT04301752

Cognitive Impairment and Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Neurobrucellosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 82 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mansoura University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Brucellosis is a common zoonotic infection in many parts of the world including the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries. Neurobrucellosis may develop at any stage of disease and may have widely variable manifestations, including encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, radiculitis, myelitis, peripheral and cranial neuropathies, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and psychiatric manifestations.

Detailed description

Brucellosis is a common zoonotic infection in many parts of the world including the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries. Neurobrucellosis may develop at any stage of disease and may have widely variable manifestations, including encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, radiculitis, myelitis, peripheral and cranial neuropathies, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and psychiatric manifestations. The aimed is to shed light to the obscure areas of diagnosis in neurobrucellosis and have detailed general and neurologic features

Conditions

• Brucellosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	MoCA	Cognitive function was assessed by using MoCA score. Cognitive impairment was considered present when MoCA scores were \<26. Maximum score is 30.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-01
• Completion: 2020-03-01
• First posted: 2020-03-10
• Last updated: 2020-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt