[Neurological disorder associated to EBV: three case reports]. / Interessamento del sistema nervoso e infezione da EBV: casi clinici.
Infez Med
; 5(3): 182-5, 1997 Jul.
Article
em It
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15034320
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with a wide range of clinical manifestations. Neurological involvement (NI) during Infectious Mononucleosis occur in 1-5% of the cases, the only NI is more rare. From January 1995 to December 1996 three patients with NI and EBV infection have been observed in our department. The diagnosis were: meningoradiculitis (1 case), meningoencephalitis (1 case), aseptic meningitis (1 case). The diagnosis was based on the results of the lumbar puncture and on the serology: IgM VCA positive at the onset of the symptoms and a significant increase of the IgG VCA after three weeks. No other etiology was apparent. All the patients have been treated with dexamethasone, glycerol and acyclovir obtaining a complete remission of the disease. In these cases the NI has been the only clinical manifestation of the EBV infection. Therefore the authors believe that it is important recognize that EBV can cause a myriad of neurological illness with or without the stigmata of infectious mononucleosis and recommend the need to suspect this infection in any acute neurologic disorder.
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Infez Med
Assunto da revista:
ALERGIA E IMUNOLOGIA
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1997
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Itália
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Itália