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Mediciego 2012; 18 (S2)
Meningoencephalomyelitis in the course of a varicella-zoster. A case report
Martínez RI, Suárez YE, Morales GJC, Forte RL
Language: Spanish
References: 15
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ABSTRACT
When an inflammatory infectious process at level of the central nervous system of any cause
exists, the injuries are not limited to the primarily affected place. Nowadays the
meningoencephalitis is classified in primary, secondary and unknown aetiology. In secondary the
etiologic agent does not affect the central nervous system directly but that does through a
hypersensitivity mechanism. Chickenpox is an acute contagious infectious disease that is
characterized by a generalized vesicular exanthema. Etiologically caused by varicella-zoster virus,
this affection can cause neurological complications. The most feared complications are the
encephalitis of sudden evolution and transverse myelitis, this last one referred to a clinical
syndrome in which there are signals of partial or total loss of neurological functions below an
injury that as far as its pathology usually has a limited longitudinal dimension in the spinal cord. It
also knows that predispose to super infection by
staphylococcus aureus and group A
Streptococcus. A clinical case of meningoencephalomyelitis is presented in the course of a
varicella zoster that it required admission in the intensive care unit from General Teaching
Hospital, in Moron “Capitán Roberto Rodríguez Fernández”.
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