Paul Rudrajit, Singhania Pankaj, Hashmi Ma, Bandyopadhyay Ramtanu, Banerjee Amit Kumar
Department of Medicine, EKO CT & MRI Scan Centre, Medical College and Hospitals, 88-College Street, Kolkata -700 073, India.
J Neurosci Rural Pract. 2010 Jul;1(2):92-6. doi: 10.4103/0976-3147.71718.
Varicella zoster infection is known to cause neurological involvement. The infection is usually self-limiting and resolves without sequelae. We present a series of three cases with neurological presentations following chicken pox infection. The first case is a case of meningitis, cerebellitis and polyradiculopathy, the second is a florid case of acute infective demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (Guillian-Barré syndrome) in a middle-aged female and the third case is a young man in whom we diagnosed acute transverse myelitis. All these cases presented with distinct neurological diagnoses and the etiology was established on the basis of history and serological tests confirmatory for chicken pox. The cases responded differently to treatment and the patients were left with minimum disability.
已知水痘带状疱疹感染可导致神经受累。该感染通常为自限性,且痊愈后无后遗症。我们报告了3例水痘感染后出现神经症状的病例。第一例为脑膜炎、小脑炎和多发性神经根病;第二例是一名中年女性患急性感染性脱髓鞘性多发性神经根神经病(吉兰-巴雷综合征)的典型病例;第三例是一名年轻男性,我们诊断其患有急性横贯性脊髓炎。所有这些病例均有明确的神经诊断,病因根据病史及水痘确诊的血清学检查确定。这些病例对治疗的反应不同,患者仅遗留轻微残疾。