title: [Elsberg syndrome: acute urinary retention following a viral infection].
abstract: In two patients, women, aged 32 and 30 years respectively, acute urinary retention after a viral infection was diagnosed. This is known as the Elsberg syndrome: urinary retention as a result of sacral myeloradiculitis. One of the patients had a blank history, the other suffered from a genital herpes infection. They were catheterised and instructed to perform catheterisation themselves. One was given an indwelling catheter. In the literature the Elsberg syndrome is mentioned relatively often after a genital herpetic infection. The treatment consists in (self)catheterisation. There may be hypesthesia in the sacral dermatomes. There is a strong tendency to recovering of spontaneous micturition in four to ten days.
authors.affiliation: Huisartspraktijk Oude Turfmarkt, Amsterdam.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vonk
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006558:Herpes Genitalis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D013577:Syndrome; D016055:Urinary Retention / Q000209:etiology*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Het syndroom van Elsberg: acute urineretentie na een virale infectie.