Corticosteroids in Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis

Abstract

A non-randomized retrospective study of 45 adult patients (12 young adults) with herpes simplex virus encephalitis (HSVE), treated with acyclovir alone (23 patients) and acyclovir plus corticosteroids (22 patients), was conducted at Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Keywords

• herpes simplex virus encephalitis
• corticosteroids
• acyclovir