title: [Acute and reversible axonal polyneuropathy in post-leptospirosis].
abstract: A 53 year old woman presented, one month after an anicteric leptospirosis, an acute, asymmetrical, sensorimotor polyneuropathy involving the lower limbs. Electrophysiological study showed evidence of severe denervation, with normal motor nerve conduction velocities, indicating an axonal degeneration. Neuro-muscular biopsy showed signs of wallerian degeneration and perivascular infiltrates of epineural vessels. She received a corticosteroid therapy during 6 months and there was a nearly complete clinical recovery.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier de Bicêtre.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Azouvi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hostachy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Desi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Saïd
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007922:Leptospirosis / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009138:Musculocutaneous Nerve / Q000473:pathology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Polyneuropathie axonale aiguë et réversible dans les suites d'une leptospirose.