Acute transverse myelitis due to Coxsackie virus.
The case of a young adult male, who after a short upper respiratory illness presented with fever and alarming progressive neurological deficits, is reported. The diagnostic puzzle and the difficulty in establishing a diagnosis are reported. Acute transverse myelitis is a rare clinical manifestation of Coxsackie virus infection, and very few cases of transverse myelitis caused by serotype B have been reported in the English literature. This is a case report of an unusual acute transverse myelitis caused by Coxsackie B2 infection.
Starakis
Ioannis
I
Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section, University Hospital, Patras, Greece. istarakis@yahoo.com
Marangos
Markos
M
Giali
Sofia
S
Bassaris
Harry
H
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis; D003384:Coxsackievirus Infections / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009188:Myelitis, Transverse / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013129:Spinal Puncture