Hyperaesthesia Following Genital Herpes: A Case Report

We report an adult female patient who presented with sacral radiculopathy as incapacitating dysthesias following primary genital herpes simplex, which later recurred. Despite use of systemic antiviral treatment, the painful syndrome in our patient persisted. The success in treatment was seen only af...

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Autores principales: Ooi, Catriona, Zawar, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/903595
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description We report an adult female patient who presented with sacral radiculopathy as incapacitating dysthesias following primary genital herpes simplex, which later recurred. Despite use of systemic antiviral treatment, the painful syndrome in our patient persisted. The success in treatment was seen only after the addition of amitriptyline hydrochloride. The case is being presented here for its rare manifestation and novel use of amitriptyline hydrochloride.
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spelling pubmed-31309962011-07-11 Hyperaesthesia Following Genital Herpes: A Case Report Ooi, Catriona Zawar, Vijay Dermatol Res Pract Case Report We report an adult female patient who presented with sacral radiculopathy as incapacitating dysthesias following primary genital herpes simplex, which later recurred. Despite use of systemic antiviral treatment, the painful syndrome in our patient persisted. The success in treatment was seen only after the addition of amitriptyline hydrochloride. The case is being presented here for its rare manifestation and novel use of amitriptyline hydrochloride. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3130996/ /pubmed/21747842 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/903595 Text en Copyright © 2011 C. Ooi and V. Zawar. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Hyperaesthesia Following Genital Herpes: A Case Report
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