Epilepsy surgery for epileptic encephalopathy as a sequela of herpes simplex encephalitis: case report.

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Epilepsy surgery for epileptic encephalopathy as a sequela of herpes simplex encephalitis: case report.

J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2017 Apr 28;:1-8

Authors: Taskin BD, Tanji K, Feldstein NA, McSwiggan-Hardin M, Akman CI

Abstract
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis can manifest with different clinical presentations, including acute monophasic illness and biphasic chronic granulomatous HSV encephalitis. Chronic encephalitis is much less common, and very rare late relapses are associated with intractable epilepsy and progressive neurological deficits with or without evidence of HSV in the cerebrospinal fluid. The authors report on an 8-year-old girl with a history of treated HSV-1 encephalitis when she was 13 months of age and focal epilepsy when she was 2 years old. Although free of clinical seizures, when she was 5, she experienced behavioral and academic dysfunction, which was later attributed to electrographic focal seizures and worsening electroencephalography (EEG) findings with electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep (ESES). Following a right temporal lobectomy, chronic granulomatous encephalitis was diagnosed. The patient's clinical course improved with the resolution of seizures and EEG abnormalities.

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