Eight Year-Old Girl With Herpes Simplex Encephalitis, Dysentery and Auditory Agnosia: A Case Report

Mohammadreza Salehiomran; Ali Ghabeli Juibary; Hamidreza Ghaemi

IJ Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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Eight Year-Old Girl With Herpes Simplex Encephalitis, Dysentery and Auditory Agnosia: A Case Report

Author(s):

Mohammadreza Salehiomran^1,*,

Ali Ghabeli Juibary²,

Hamidreza Ghaemi²

1Department of Pediatric Neurology, Babol University of Medical Sciences and Health services, Babol, Iran

2Department of Pediatric Neurology, Amirkola Paediatric hospital, Babol University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Babol, Iran

IJ Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences:Vol. 2, issue 1; 50-3

Published online:Jan 31, 2008

Article type:Case Report

Received:Dec 04, 2007

Accepted:Jan 08, 2008

How to Cite:Mohammadreza SalehiomranAli Ghabeli JuibaryHamidreza GhaemiEight Year-Old Girl With Herpes Simplex Encephalitis, Dysentery and Auditory Agnosia: A Case Report.Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci.2(1):e2796.

Abstract

Despite advances in antiviral therapy over the past 2 decades, herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) remains a serious illness with significant risk of morbidity and mortality. HSE includes a range of clinical presentations, from aseptic meningitis and fever to a severe rapidly progressive form with mental status changes (clouding of consciousness, confusion, disorientation, personality changes) and sometimes seizures (focal or generalized), dysphagia, or other focal neurological signs. Symptoms vary in intensity early in the disease, but tend to progress rapidly. Brain CT Scan and MRI can play an important role in determining the diagnosis and extent of the disease. This case report refers to an 8-year-old girl, diagnosed with herpes encephalitis that presented with seizure, bloody diarrhea and decreased level of consciousness and restlessness who recovered clinically after acyclovir treatment.

Keywords

Herpes simplex encephalitis

Seizure

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