Herpes simplex encephalitis is a rapidly progressive disease in neonates and adults. Mortality is high, and there are severe neurologic sequelae in survivors. The reasons for centripetal transfer of virus to the brain are not fully understood. Prompt diagnosis followed by antiviral therapy with acyclovir significantly improves the prognosis. Controversy surrounds the need for brain biopsy befor...

Human Herpes Virus 6 (HHV6) is known to be commonly associated with encephalitis related to immunosuppression and transplantation, and to bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in particular.1 HHV-6 is known to be common in transplant recipients and lead to several clinical manifestations, such as encephalitis.1-4 HHV 6 encephalitis in patients with BMT is known as latent infection. The first such c...

picture of the encephalitis may be fulminating with a fatal outcome, or it ^ be of a much milder nature with ultimate recovery, as in the case here recor^ The present case is reported as an example of its association with occasional manifestation, the Ramsay Hunt syndrome, or so-called herpes " (Hunt, 1907). This syndrome in its most severe form, comp^, peripheral facial palsy, herpetic eruptio...

An article on neonatal herpes encephalitis in the September jOctober 1985 issue of the AJNR [1] could have benefited from a greater awareness of the literature. The authors speculated about the increased density of the cortical gyri, but neglected to mention one proven cause of this, for example, retained contrast medium [2]. This lack of awareness also resulted in a significant omission in the...

BACKGROUND Encephalitis rates by etiology and acute-phase outcomes for encephalitis in the 21st century are largely unknown. We sought to evaluate cause-specific rates of encephalitis hospitalizations and predictors of inpatient mortality in the United States. METHODS Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 2000 to 2010, a retrospective observational study of 238,567 patients (mean [...