Herpes simplex virus encephalitis after temporal lobe resection: an infrequent but treatable complication of epilepsy surgery

J Martínez-Poles; R Toledano; Á Aledo-Serrano; K Korn; R Coras; I Blümcke; I García-Morales; J Álvarez-Linera; A Gil-Nagel

doi:10.1111/ene.14475

Herpes simplex virus encephalitis after temporal lobe resection: an infrequent but treatable complication of epilepsy surgery

Eur J Neurol. 2020 Oct;27(10):e60-e61. doi: 10.1111/ene.14475. Epub 2020 Sep 5.

Authors

J Martínez-Poles^{1

2}, R Toledano^{3

4}, Á Aledo-Serrano³, K Korn⁵, R Coras⁶, I Blümcke⁶, I García-Morales^{2

3}, J Álvarez-Linera⁷, A Gil-Nagel³

Affiliations

¹ Neurology Department, Hospital La Luz, Madrid, Spain.
² Epilepsy Unit, Neurology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Health Research Institute of the Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
³ Epilepsy Unit, Neurology Department, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Epilepsy Unit, Neurology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Institute of Virology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
⁶ Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospitals, Erlangen, Germany.
⁷ Radiology Department, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid, Spain.

PMID: 32794613
DOI: 10.1111/ene.14475

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical and diagnostic investigations; encephalitis; epilepsy; imaging; infections; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); management; neurological disorders; surgery.

Publication types

Letter