Human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV)-associated neuropathy.
Symptomatic peripheral neuropathy occurs in a small proportion of HTLV-1 infected patients. Peripheral manifestations are often masked by symptoms and signs of the tropical spastic myelopathy characteristic of the disease. Peripheral neuropathy is often characterized by alteration of small-fiber functions, with inflammatory lesions of peripheral nerves, sometimes associated with symptomatic polymyositis, which may occur in isolation in this setting.
Antonio Pedro University Hospital, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: osvaldo_nascimento@hotmail.com.
Osvaldo J M
OJ
Nascimento
Wilson
W
Marques
D006800:Deltaretrovirus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D015368:Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D006801:Humans; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000821:virology*
HTLV. tropical spastic paraparesis; MRI; electrodiagnostic; microvasculitis; myelopathy; nerve biopsy; peripheral neuropathy; small-fiber neuropathy