[Encephalitis and hepatitis after varicella. Relations with Reye's syndrome]

We report the case of a 32 year old man who present two weeks after a typical varicella an alteration of consciousness with pleocytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid and abnormalities of EEG and CT Scan. An hepatic dysfunction with cytolysis and a high level of transaminases and ammonia was noted. About this case the author precise the encephalitic complication of varicella, and the different liver abnormalities, such as Reye's syndrome, hepatitis with parcellar necrosis, or hepatitis with hyperammonemia but without cytolysis or necrosis, as in our own.