Diaphragmatic paralysis associated with herpes zoster and HIV-tuberculosis co-infection.
Motor complications after herpes zoster are not uncommon. There have been reports of muscular paralysis following herpes zoster. The association between diaphragmatic paralysis and zoster was first reported in 1949 by Halpern. The case presented below showed diaphragmatic involvement following herpes zoster in a HIV-tuberculosis coinfected patient.
HIV/AIDS research laboratory, University of Oran, Oran, Algeria benabdellah_anwar@yahoo.fr.
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Benabdellah
HIV/AIDS research laboratory, University of Oran, Oran, Algeria.
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Souhil
HIV/AIDS research laboratory, University of Oran, Oran, Algeria.
Zaoui Omar
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Farouk
D000328:Adult; D060085:Coinfection / Q000150:complications; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014645:Herpesvirus 3, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012133:Respiratory Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000821:virology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology
AIDS; HIV; VZV; diaphragmatic paralysis; herpes zoster; opportunistic infection; tuberculosis; varicella zoster virus