Mollaret's Meningitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Abstract

Mollaret's meningitis is defined as a benign recurrent aseptic meningitis characterized by three to ten episodes of fever and signs of meningeal irritation lasting between 2 to 5 days, associated with spontaneous recovery. Mollaret in 1944 described this rare form of self limiting aseptic recurrent benign meningitis. It is an extremely rare condition. Till 2002 approximately 50 cases of recurrent HSV meningitis have been described in the United States and in Europe. Here a report of a patient with recurrent meningitis, which resembles the criteria of Mollaret's Meningitis, is presented. doi: 10.3329/taj.v17i1.3489 TAJ 2004; 17(1) : 41-46

Клінічний випадок поєднання вторинного головного болю з рецидивуючими генітальними висипаннями в iмунокомпетентної жінки

“…In 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, Pierre Mollaret published in medical journal a clinical observation of three patients, who had recurrent short episodes of headache, fever and vomiting combined with aseptic meningitis, where the so-called phantom cells were present in the CSF, consisting of epithelial cells, lymphocytes and neutrophils [9]. Despite the fact that there were no signs of viral meningitis in the cerebrospinal fluid, which can be explained by the rapidity of CSF normalization in BRAM, which occurs spontaneously within 2 to 5 days (examination of our patient was conducted on day 8 after the onset of the attack), the pre sence of other signs was consistent with MM criteria (see below) [10][11][12].…”