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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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