| Literature DB >> 24923742 |
Tiago Teodoro1, Maria A Nagel2, Ruth Geraldes1, Teresa White3, Ravi Mahalingam3, Paulo Batista1, Mary Wellish3, Jose Pimentel2, Nelly Khmeleva3, Anna Heintzman3, Luísa Albuquerque1, Philip J Boyer4, Alexander Choe3, Rita Peralta1, Don Gilden5.
Abstract
A 72-year-old man developed clinical features of giant cell arteritis (GCA) and ipsilateral ophthalmic-distribution zoster, followed within 2 weeks by VZV encephalitis and 2 months later by ischemic optic neuropathy. Temporal artery biopsy was histopathologically negative for GCA, but contained VZV antigen and VZV DNA in multiple non-contiguous (skip) areas. The collective clinical and laboratory findings revealed a remarkably close temporal association of zoster, multifocal VZV vasculopathy with temporal artery infection, biopsy-negative VZV-positive GCA and VZV encephalitis.Entities:
Keywords: Encephalitis; Giant cell arteritis; Ischemic optic neuropathy; Varicella zoster virus; Zoster
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24923742 PMCID: PMC4101038 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.05.035
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurol Sci ISSN: 0022-510X Impact factor: 3.181