Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a rare complication of herpes zoster disease in which reactivation of latent varicella zoster virus infection occurs in the geniculate ganglion causing otalgia, unilateral vesicular eruption in a restricted dermatomal distribution, and peripheral facial paralysis. Dermal infections caused by human pathogenic herpes viruses are common in organ transplant recipients. For a...

varicella zoster virus (vzv) is a member of herpes family viruses, which causes varicella (chickenpox) after primary infection and herpes zoster (shingles) because of latent virus reactivation from dorsal root ganglia. generally, prevalence of varicella antibodies increases with age. we aimed to compare the prevalence of anti-vzv antibody in children under seven years old, in order to obtain a ...

Herpes zoster in the distribution of the maxillary and mandibular divisions of the trigeminal nerve is characterized by painful vesicular eruptions of the skin and oral mucosa in the distribution of the affected nerves. Oral complications may occur, including post-herpetic neuralgia, devitalisation of teeth, and abnormal development of permanent teeth, root resorption and periapical lesions. Th...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia increasing incidence is related to ageing. These conditions can be very debilitating and have an important impact in patients' quality of life. In an ageing population like the Portuguese, is expected that the burden of herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia rises, nevertheless, a specific surveillance system for zoster do...

Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS) is a complication of latent varicella-zoster virus infection, and considered as form herpes zoster (HZ) occurring in the otic region. Although skin lesions HZ usually appear along only one or two dermatomes, it occasionally disseminated patients with decreased immunity. Here we report rare case RHS developing an immunocompetent young adult. A 16-year-old healthy man c...

BACKGROUND Herpes zoster occurs more commonly in patients taking immunosuppressive medications, although the risk associated with different medications is poorly understood. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study involving 20,357 patients who were followed in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system and treated for rheumatoid arthritis from October 1998 through June 2005. Cox proport...

Sir, Herpes zoster is due to reactivation of varicella-zoster virus lying dormant in the dorsal root ganglion. It is characterized by pain or burning sensation in the involved dermatome with a grouped vesicular rash. In herpes zoster, acute inflammatory changes occur in the posterior nerve root and ganglia. Among the complications of herpes zoster, involvement of motor neurons is rare and may l...

Viral infections in renal transplant patients are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. In most cases, the clinical presentation of herpes zoster allows the diagnosis to be made only by history and physical examination. However, patients who are immunosuppressed may have uncommon presentations, and require a high index of suspicion and additional diagnostic testing for proper managemen...

BACKGROUND The association between liver cirrhosis (LC) and herpes zoster has rarely been studied. We investigated the hypothesis that LC, known as an immunodeficiency disease, may increase the risk of herpes zoster using a national health insurance database in Taiwan. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study cohort included cirrhotic patients between 1998 and 2005 (n = 4667), and a ratio of 1:5 rando...

herpes zoster is a rare cause of non-discogenic sciatica. a combination of case rarity and name similarity was nearly leading to an inopportune surgery in a 21 years old woman. the clinical presentation was completely similar to a cauda equina syndrome associated with urinary incontinence and bilateral leg involvement. concurrently, lumbosacral imaging of another patient with exactly similar na...