[Klüver-Bucy syndrome after herpes simplex encephalitis]

Psychiatr Prax. 2013 Oct;40(7):392-3. doi: 10.1055/s-0033-1343274. Epub 2013 Jul 11.
[Article in German]

Abstract

We present the case of an 18-year-old women with Klüver-Bucy syndrome as sequela of Herpes simplex encephalitis. The symptomatology remitted partly under treatment with carbamazepine.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use
  • Brain Edema / diagnosis
  • Brain Edema / drug therapy
  • Carbamazepine / therapeutic use
  • Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex / diagnosis*
  • Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex / drug therapy
  • Female
  • Herpesvirus 1, Human*
  • Humans
  • Kluver-Bucy Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Kluver-Bucy Syndrome / drug therapy
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / diagnosis*
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / drug therapy
  • Temporal Lobe / pathology

Substances

  • Anticonvulsants
  • Carbamazepine