Varicella zoster encephalitis, cranial nerve neuropathies, and takotsubo syndrome: delving further into the pathogenesis

Varicella zoster virus infection of the pharynx and larynx with multiple cranial neuropathies.

Varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection of the head and neck region may present with various clinical symptoms, involving different entities and different routes of viral spreading. We present a case of VZV infection of the pharynx and larynx with multiple cranial nerve (CN) neuropathies (CN VII, VIII, IX, and X) of a 52-year-old woman who complained of the sudden onset of hoarseness, odynophagi...

Varicella-zoster virus encephalitis mimicking toxoplasmosis relapse

Case report. A 37-year-old woman was admitted with seizures, confusion, and fever following weeks of apathy and self-neglect. HIV-1 infection and cerebral toxoplasmosis were diagnosed 4 months before, with good clinical and radiologic response to sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine after 1 month (figure, A). After discharge she had poor adherence to antitoxoplasmosis and antiretroviral drugs. At thi...

McConnell's sign - an insight into the pathogenesis of Takotsubo syndrome?

Varicella Zoster Cranial Polyneuropathy Presenting With Dysphagia, Esophagitis and Gastroparesis

CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Figure 1. Upper gastrointestinal endos-copy showing, (A) ulceration in laryngo-pharynx a...

Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Associated with True Vocal Cord Palsy- A Case Report

Introduction: Varicella-zoster virus may cause an infectious disease called Ramsay Hunt syndrome. The related symptoms include facial nerve palsy (FNP), otalgia, the vesicular eruptions of the auricle and external auditory canal, less common ocular movement disorder, facial hypoesthesia, myofascial pain, vestibular symptoms, hearing loss, dysphasia, vocal cord paralysis, as well as tongue paral...