Can encephalitis lead in later years to Brain Tumor?

Posted By Edward Metz on October 10, 1998 at 19:34:00:







I just discovered through a routine eye exam that I have lost a part of my peripheral vision in my right eye. I never noticed this until I was shown the results of a visual field test.  Further examination showed that my optic nerve is quite pale.  Is it possible or even likely that this was a result of a severe bout of encephalitis that I had when I was 6?  (I'm now 33).  I don't remember much anymore from that time except that I spent more than two months in the hospital and was really ill.  (Later I had to wear glasses because I began to see double.)  Am I more at risk for a brain tumor as a result of this illness I had as a child?  Have you ever heard of any case of someone losing part of their vision as a result of encephalitis or is it more probable that something else as caused this?  Thank you....