Eighteen of 300 patients suffered brain swelling, an apparent immune reaction to the vaccine.
Ultimately, he decided against any treatment and simply took pills for brain swelling.
Steroids are also given to reduce brain swelling by stopping extra fluid entering brain cells and increasing their volume.
Measles is potentially dangerous in a very small number of cases - it can lead to pneumonia or brain swelling.
The rabies virus causes brain swelling that is almost always fatal, but the vaccine is 100% effective when given in time.
Then tests of a new vaccine to treat Alzheimer's were stopped after the medicine caused brain swelling, sending scientists back to the drawing board.
Solid evidence that the vaccine worked might have been on the way if a handful of patients hadn't experienced the brain swelling after receiving only two doses.
Grigg and his colleagues performed necropsies on 151 dead marine mammals that they suspected had parasitic encephalitis, the medical term for the brain swelling caused by parasite infection.
This is the diagnosis whereby caregivers are convicted of child abuse after babies die of sudden subdural brain bleeding and swelling with no evidence of external injury.
"There's only so much swelling brain can tolerate until there's pressure on the nerves that control breathing and circulation, " said Dr. Roger Bonomo, director of stroke care at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
He was taken to hospital and slipped into a coma with swelling on his brain.
But when Portillo arrived to the hospital, he slipped into a coma with swelling in his brain.
He was found to have swelling to his brain, which had recently been bleeding, and recent retinal haemorrhages to both eyes.
Wendy Fox suffered swelling to the brain and spinal cord and was paralysed from the waist down for a time after contracting Lyme disease.
Portillo suffered swelling in his brain and had been listed in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.
Mr Barter was discovered unconscious by his neighbours and taken to the major trauma centre at King's College Hospital, where part of his skull was removed to cope with the bleeding and swelling on his brain.
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Ricardo Portillo, 46, has swelling in his brain and his recovery is uncertain as he remains in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.
Lower body temperatures are known to slow cell death and swelling caused by severe brain injuries.
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