[Neuropathy following treatment of chronic active hepatitis with vidarabine]

In a patient with chronic active hepatitis (CAH) due to B-virus, a polyneuropathy developed following a cure of vidarabine. The pathophysiology of this neuropathy remains unclear as it appears not to occur in patients with diseases other than CAH. Muscular pains and paresthesias reported in such patients treated with vidarabine could be the consequence of peripheral nerve involvement.