Fifteen minute consultation: Managing neonatal and childhood herpes encephalitis

Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is the most common single cause of viral encephalitis in infants and children. Treated or untreated, it can be associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, and its presentation is usually insidious and non-specific. Prompt and careful investigation is impor...

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Autores principales: Le Doare, K, Menson, Esse, Patel, Deepak, Lim, Ming, Lyall, Hermione, Herberg, Jethro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2015
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Best Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4392236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25112286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-306321
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author Le Doare, K
Menson, Esse
Patel, Deepak
Lim, Ming
Lyall, Hermione
Herberg, Jethro
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description Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is the most common single cause of viral encephalitis in infants and children. Treated or untreated, it can be associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, and its presentation is usually insidious and non-specific. Prompt and careful investigation is important in order to establish the diagnosis so that treatment can be optimised. We address some common questions arising when diagnosing and treating presumed HSE throughout childhood.
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spelling pubmed-43922362015-04-13 Fifteen minute consultation: Managing neonatal and childhood herpes encephalitis Le Doare, K Menson, Esse Patel, Deepak Lim, Ming Lyall, Hermione Herberg, Jethro Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed Best Practice Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is the most common single cause of viral encephalitis in infants and children. Treated or untreated, it can be associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, and its presentation is usually insidious and non-specific. Prompt and careful investigation is important in order to establish the diagnosis so that treatment can be optimised. We address some common questions arising when diagnosing and treating presumed HSE throughout childhood. BMJ Publishing Group 2015-04 2014-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4392236/ /pubmed/25112286 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-306321 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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