Favorable Outcome of Ramsay Hunt Syndrome under Dexamethasone

A 20-year-old student under chronic stress developed a painful reddish left ear, vesicles on the left ear, severe left-sided peripheral facial-nerve palsy, and hypoesthesia of the left upper lip, after exposure to a ventilator. Ramsay Hunt syndrome was diagnosed. Instead of prednisolone she received...

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Autores principales: Finsterer, Josef, Bachtiar, Arian, Niedermayr, Anton
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22991518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/247598
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author Finsterer, Josef
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description A 20-year-old student under chronic stress developed a painful reddish left ear, vesicles on the left ear, severe left-sided peripheral facial-nerve palsy, and hypoesthesia of the left upper lip, after exposure to a ventilator. Ramsay Hunt syndrome was diagnosed. Instead of prednisolone she received dexamethasone (40 mg/d) but nonetheless recovered completely after 12 weeks.
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spelling pubmed-34436122012-09-18 Favorable Outcome of Ramsay Hunt Syndrome under Dexamethasone Finsterer, Josef Bachtiar, Arian Niedermayr, Anton Case Rep Med Case Report A 20-year-old student under chronic stress developed a painful reddish left ear, vesicles on the left ear, severe left-sided peripheral facial-nerve palsy, and hypoesthesia of the left upper lip, after exposure to a ventilator. Ramsay Hunt syndrome was diagnosed. Instead of prednisolone she received dexamethasone (40 mg/d) but nonetheless recovered completely after 12 weeks. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3443612/ /pubmed/22991518 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/247598 Text en Copyright © 2012 Josef Finsterer et al. 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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