Monoparesis secondary to herpes zoster.
We describe a 90-year-old woman with right upper limb monoparesis secondary to varicella zoster virus infection as a result of extensive inflammatory involvement of the entire brachial plexus at root level. To our knowledge, this is the first report of entire brachial plexus involvement in a living patient of such advanced age. Despite a delay in presentation and thus initiation of treatment, a favourable clinical response was observed.
Bilal
S
S
Department of Internal Medicine, Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, Ireland. sb72pk@yahoo.com
Iqbal
M
M
O'Moore
B
B
Alam
J
J
Suliman
A
A
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001917:Brachial Plexus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014645:Herpesvirus 3, Human; D006801:Humans; D010291:Paresis / Q000821:virology*; D034941:Upper Extremity / Q000503:physiopathology