Abstract

Background Severe viral encephalitis in children causes a viral infection that damages their central nervous system. This situation arises the mental abnormalities, sudden rise in body temperature, disturbance of consciousness, and so forth in children, which can be life-threatening. Objective This work aimed at exploring the effect of diffusion weighted MRI on children with severe viral encephalitis and myocarditis. Methods This work presents a diffusion weighted MRI scanning method that involves scanning through a serial imaging device, axial scanning, and sagittal and coronal scanning. 60 children with severe viral encephalitis and myocarditis who admitted to Brain Hospital of Hunan Province from April 2017 to May 2020 were deemed as research subjects. All the children underwent CT and MRI examination, blood routine examination, and cerebrospinal fluid examination after admission. This work uses the random number table method to classify the subjects into control group and observation group, each consisting of 30 cases. Children in the control group were provided with the routine nursing intervention, whereas children in the observation group were subjected to incentive nursing intervention. The baseline data, ECG monitoring indicators, body abnormalities, and clinical symptom relief time of the two groups of children were compared and the results of diffusion weighted MRI scans were analyzed and the ADC values were counted. Results The two groups of children were compared on the basis of baseline data, and the variation was not statistically substantial (P > 0.05). The cases of children in the control group had higher heart rate and respiration, and physical dysfunction, language dysfunction, unconsciousness, and nervous dysfunction were more than those in the observation group. However, the cases of blood oxygen saturation were less than those of the observation group. After nursing intervention done for the control group, remission time of clinical symptoms such as convulsion, physical dysfunction, unconsciousness, and nerve dysfunction was longer relative to the observation group (all P < 0.05 are considered). Conclusion The diffusion weighted MRI had diagnostic significance for severe viral encephalitis and myocarditis. For children with severe viral encephalitis and myocarditis, clinical incentive nursing intervention was particularly imperative. It can not only help children to relieve symptoms and control the deterioration of the disease in a short time but also help improve the quality of life of the children and the confidence of family members to cope with the disease.

Highlights

  • Viral encephalitis refers to brain inflammation caused by a virus directly invading the brain parenchyma. e main cause of this disease is enterovirus infection, which mainly includes polio virus, Coxsackie virus A and B, and Echo virus. e disease has the characteristics of seasonality, epidemic, and so forth

  • Children manifested with obvious mental abnormalities, sudden rise in body temperature, disturbance of consciousness, and so forth, which can be severely lifethreatening

  • Children with viral encephalitis are mostly classified into two types: mild type and critical type

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Background

Severe viral encephalitis in children causes a viral infection that damages their central nervous system. is situation arises the mental abnormalities, sudden rise in body temperature, disturbance of consciousness, and so forth in children, which can be life-threatening. Is work aimed at exploring the effect of diffusion weighted MRI on children with severe viral encephalitis and myocarditis. Is work uses the random number table method to classify the subjects into control group and observation group, each consisting of 30 cases. E baseline data, ECG monitoring indicators, body abnormalities, and clinical symptom relief time of the two groups of children were compared and the results of diffusion weighted MRI scans were analyzed and the ADC values were counted. After nursing intervention done for the control group, remission time of clinical symptoms such as convulsion, physical dysfunction, unconsciousness, and nerve dysfunction was longer relative to the observation group (all P < 0.05 are considered). E diffusion weighted MRI had diagnostic significance for severe viral encephalitis and myocarditis. It can help children to relieve symptoms and control the deterioration of the disease in a short time and help improve the quality of life of the children and the confidence of family members to cope with the disease

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