Pereira Licia Pacheco, Villas-Bôas Rafaela, Scott Stephanie Suzanne de Oliveira, Nóbrega Paulo Ribeiro, Sobreira-Neto Manoel Alves, Castro José Daniel Vieira de, Cavalcante Bruno, Braga-Neto Pedro
Divisão de Neurorradiologia, Departamento de Radiologia, Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
Departamento de Radiologia, Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2017 May-Jun;50(3):413-416. doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0449-2016.
Chikungunya, an alphavirus infection presenting with fever, rash, and polyarthritis, is most often an acute febrile illness. Neurologic complications of chikungunya infection have been reported. Here we report the clinical and neuroimaging data of 2 patients with chikungunya-associated encephalitis during the recent Brazilian epidemic.
基孔肯雅热是一种由甲病毒感染引起的疾病,症状包括发热、皮疹和多关节炎,通常为急性发热性疾病。已有关于基孔肯雅热感染所致神经并发症的报道。在此,我们报告了巴西近期疫情期间2例基孔肯雅热相关脑炎患者的临床和神经影像学资料。