Are Steroids a Beneficial Adjunctive Therapy in the Immunosuppressed Patient with Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis?

Few reports describe the reactivation of latent herpes simplex virus causing encephalitis (HSVE) in patients undergoing brain radiation therapy and a concomitant steroid regimen. The role for steroid use in the treatment of patients with HSVE has not been fully elucidated. We report the case of a fe...

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Autores principales: Lizarraga, Karlo J., Alexandre, Lucien C., Ramos-Estebanez, Ciro, Merenda, Amedeo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2013
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Published online: March, 2013
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3635685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23626565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000350572
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author Lizarraga, Karlo J.
Alexandre, Lucien C.
Ramos-Estebanez, Ciro
Merenda, Amedeo
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description Few reports describe the reactivation of latent herpes simplex virus causing encephalitis (HSVE) in patients undergoing brain radiation therapy and a concomitant steroid regimen. The role for steroid use in the treatment of patients with HSVE has not been fully elucidated. We report the case of a female patient immunosuppressed by steroids and brain radiation who developed HSVE and responded to acyclovir and dexamethasone.
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spelling pubmed-36356852013-04-26 Are Steroids a Beneficial Adjunctive Therapy in the Immunosuppressed Patient with Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis? Lizarraga, Karlo J. Alexandre, Lucien C. Ramos-Estebanez, Ciro Merenda, Amedeo Case Rep Neurol Published online: March, 2013 Few reports describe the reactivation of latent herpes simplex virus causing encephalitis (HSVE) in patients undergoing brain radiation therapy and a concomitant steroid regimen. The role for steroid use in the treatment of patients with HSVE has not been fully elucidated. We report the case of a female patient immunosuppressed by steroids and brain radiation who developed HSVE and responded to acyclovir and dexamethasone. S. Karger AG 2013-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3635685/ /pubmed/23626565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000350572 Text en Copyright © 2013 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: March, 2013
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Alexandre, Lucien C.
Ramos-Estebanez, Ciro
Merenda, Amedeo
Are Steroids a Beneficial Adjunctive Therapy in the Immunosuppressed Patient with Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis?
title Are Steroids a Beneficial Adjunctive Therapy in the Immunosuppressed Patient with Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis?
title_full Are Steroids a Beneficial Adjunctive Therapy in the Immunosuppressed Patient with Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis?
title_fullStr Are Steroids a Beneficial Adjunctive Therapy in the Immunosuppressed Patient with Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis?
title_full_unstemmed Are Steroids a Beneficial Adjunctive Therapy in the Immunosuppressed Patient with Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis?
title_short Are Steroids a Beneficial Adjunctive Therapy in the Immunosuppressed Patient with Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis?
title_sort are steroids a beneficial adjunctive therapy in the immunosuppressed patient with herpes simplex virus encephalitis?
topic Published online: March, 2013
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3635685/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000350572
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