Post-varicella angiopathy: A series of 4 patients with focus on virologic and neuroimaging findings

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 581-585

  Dunkhase Heinl, Ulrike ^a   Stausbøl Grøn, Brian ^b   Christensen, Johnny ^a   Ostergaard, John R ^b  

^a Department of Pediatrics Kolding Region Hospital   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

angiopathy; children; outcome; stroke; treatment; varicella zoster

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACICLOVIR; PREDNISONE; SALICYLIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; POST VARICELLA ANGIOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VOMITING; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPLICATION; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PARESIS; PATHOLOGY; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHICKENPOX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARESIS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901229804     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: 18735150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2014.01.019     Document Type: Article

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