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Published on: October 12, 2018
Herpetic lumbosacral radiculoneuropathy in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection
Asako Yoritaka1, Keiko Ohta, Shuji Kishida
1Department of Neurology, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. yorita@cick.jp
Abstract:
We report 4 cases of human immunodeficiency virus infection associated with lumbosacral radicular dysfunction and urinary retention. Three of these cases had the so-called Elsberg syndrome in that their symptoms were associated with genital herpes. In 1 case, different herpes simplex virus types were isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid and genital swabs. Lumbosacral radiculoneuropathy with urinary retention caused by herpes viruses can develop not only with an initial genital herpes infection, but also due to reactivation of a latent herpes virus.
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