A Parsonage-Turner Syndrome secondary to Parvovirus B19 infection

Parvovirus B19 (PVB19) is a small DNA virus that causes the fifth disease in children; however it can also affect adults. The infection can be asymptomatic in about a quarter of healthy subjects. Typical clinical manifestations are: short lived fever accompanied by asthenia, myalgias and pharyngodyn...

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Autores principales: Mozzani, Flavio, Marino, Noemi Giuliana, Becciolini, Andrea, Di Donato, Eleonora, Ariani, Alarico, Santilli, Daniele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mattioli 1885 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8142777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33944819
http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v92iS1.10702
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Sumario:Parvovirus B19 (PVB19) is a small DNA virus that causes the fifth disease in children; however it can also affect adults. The infection can be asymptomatic in about a quarter of healthy subjects. Typical clinical manifestations are: short lived fever accompanied by asthenia, myalgias and pharyngodynia; symmetrical acute polyarthritis; megalo-erytema in child; maculopapular rash and/or fleeting purpuric at the extremities in adult; adenopathies in the cervical area. Atypical manifestions can affect neurological system (both central and peripheral), hearth and kidney. We describe a 37-year-old man with neuralgic amyotrophy (Parsonage-Turner syndrome) caused by Parvovirus B19 infection. (www. actabiomedica.it)

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