Successful pregnancy with isolated herpes simplex virus encephalitis: case report and review of the literature.

Isolated herpes simplex virus encephalitis in pregnancy is a rare illness with an elusive diagnosis. We describe the second patient to survive this disease and the first to have no sequelae, because of prompt diagnosis and treatment with acyclovir.

Leukoencephalopathy in normal and pathologic aging: 2. MRI of brain lucencies.

A pilot study was performed to test the ability of MR to evaluate the brain lucencies shown by CT in Alzheimer disease patients and in normal control subjects. Eight patients with presumed Alzheimer disease and 47 normal controls, 12 over the age of 45 years and 35 under age 45, were studied. Each group included subjects with and without CT evidence of leukoencephalopathy.

Comparative efficacy of pergolide and bromocriptine in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease.

Treatment with pergolide was compared with bromocriptine in 25 patients, all of whom were also receiving levodopa and in all of whom the response to levodopa had diminished. All 25 patients had "on-off" phenomena. At the time bromocriptine was added to levodopa, the mean age of the patients was 61.