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A Primary Neuron Culture System for the Study of Herpes Simplex Virus Latency and Reactivation
Published on: April 2, 2012
Crossed cerebellar diaschisis in herpes simplex encephalitis
1Department of Neurology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, 92 Section 2 Chung-Shan North Road, P.O. Box Nei-hu 6-30, Taipei, Taiwan. thajebp@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Diaschisis is extremely rare in patients with viral encephalitis. We report the phenomenon of crossed cerebellar diaschisis (CCD) in a 73-year-old man with acute herpes simplex type-1 (HSV-1) encephalitis. The diagnosis of HSV-1 encephalitis was confirmed by detecting HSV-1 deoxyribonucleic acid in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Magnetic resonance images (MRI) showed enhancing lesions at bilateral temporal lobes, insular cortices, and right frontoparietal lobes. Increase signal intensity on T2-weighted images was seen in the mesecephalon. Technetium-99m ethyl cysteinate dimer (99mTc-ECD) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) of the brain showed a large area of hypoperfusion in the right frontotemporoparietal lobes. The side-to-side cerebellar count revealed 19% reduction of the radioisotope tracer uptake in the left cerebellum. The phenomenon of CCD was proposed to be due to both anterograde disconnection of the corticopontocerebellar tracts and retrograde deafferentation of dentatothalamocortical projections.
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