Successful pregnancy with isolated herpes simplex virus encephalitis: case report and review of the literature.
Isolated herpes simplex virus encephalitis in pregnancy is a rare illness with an elusive diagnosis. We describe the second patient to survive this disease and the first to have no sequelae, because of prompt diagnosis and treatment with acyclovir.
Frieden
F J
FJ
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University Medical Center, New York.
Ordorica
S A
SA
Goodgold
A L
AL
Hoskins
I A
IA
Silverman
F
F
Young
B K
BK
D000328:Adult; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy