Complicated Herpetic Necrotising Meningoencephalitis Requiring Neurosurgical Intervention - a Case Report
2010
Abstract
Herpetic diseases of the central nervous system, in particular certain forms of necrotising meningoencephalitis, are always perceived as a serious conditions. What may render this infection lethal is bleeding into encephalitic parts within the brain.
Close collaboration between infectologist, neurologist, neurosurgeon and the radiodiagnostic team is vital to diagnosis and therapy. This tudy addresses viral herpes simplex 1 and type 2, their pathophysilogy, diagnostics and treatment.
It also outlines the casuistics of complicated herpetic necrotising meningoencephalitis requiring neurosurgical inervention.