Professional paper

Neurological Complications of Chickenpox: Case Series Report and Literature Review

Rusmir Baljić orcid.org/0000-0002-2693-7307 ; Infectious Diseases Clinic, Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alma Sejtarija Memišević ; Infectious Diseases Clinic, Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Irma Dizdarević ; Infectious Diseases Clinic, Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Refet Gojak ; Infectious Diseases Clinic, Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Semir Hrvo ; Infectious Diseases Clinic, Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hadžan Konjo ; Health Studies Faculty, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

Chickenpox, as a self-limited disease, can result with a large spectrum of complications. Neurological complications are very rare, and among them acute cerebellar ataxia is the most frequent one. Also, varicella-zoster virus has been reported as the second infectious agent of acute encephalitis. We present neurological complications of chickenpox in a five year period of hospitalisation in the Infectious Diseases Clinic, Clinical Centre at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Among 181 hospitalised patients, nine had neurological complications. Acute cerebellitis was the most frequent diagnosis. All patients were treated with acyclovir, and the outcome was a major success.

Keywords

chickenpox; ataxia; encephalitis

Hrčak ID:

226067

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/226067

Publication date:

10.10.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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