Herpes Simplex Encephalitis: The High Cost of Collateral Damage

The author discusses a case of herpes simplex encephalitis in a young man presented with headache and continuous seizures. The CNS infection with grand-mal seizures resulting in tissue breakdown and complications of acute kidney injury and lactic acidosis. Once the seizures are brought under control the lactic acidosis and the AKI resolved, but the patient tormented from the CNS squeals of HSE in the form of neuropsychiatric complications with long-term effect that necessitate 24-hour care to cope with his daily livings.