Biopsy-negative, varicella zoster virus (VZV)-positive giant cell arteritis, zoster, VZV encephalitis and ischemic optic neuropathy, all in one

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 343, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 195-197

  Teodoro, Tiago ^a   Nagel, Maria A ^a   Geraldes, Ruth ^a   White, Teresa ^b   Mahalingam, Ravi ^b   Batista, Paulo ^a   Wellish, Mary ^b   Pimentel, Jose ^a   Khmeleva, Nelly ^b   Heintzman, Anna ^b   Albuquerque, Luísa ^a   Boyer, Philip J ^b   Choe, Alexander ^b   Peralta, Rita ^a   Gilden, Don ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Giant cell arteritis; Ischemic optic neuropathy; Varicella zoster virus; Zoster

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL DNA; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; VALACICLOVIR; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED MYOPATHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISORIENTATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; HEADACHE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPES ZOSTER ENCEPHALITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; KERATITIS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MYALGIA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SPEECH DISORDER; TEMPORAL ARTERY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VASCULAR DISEASE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ENCEPHALITIS, VARICELLA ZOSTER; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84904268437     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.05.035     Document Type: Article

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