Postviral Complications

Acute Postviral Encephalopathy

The authors report a case of fatal acute encephalopathy following influenza infection, with slightly atypical pathological and imaging findings. A healthy 8-year-old boy with probable recent influenza A/B infection admitted for refractory seizures was placed on phenobarbital coma and later developed hemodynamic instability. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed bilateral cerebral and cerebellar w...

Postviral fatigue syndrome.

History of postviral fatigue syndrome.

In writing a history of any illness there is always a dilemma whether to attempt the story of the condition 'itself', the medical attempts to define its nature, or to glimpse it via our changing reactions. The easiest is a straightforward account of the attempts of scientists to solve a problem--the classic medical detective story. However, this is often more fiction than fact. Medicine rarely ...

Enterovirus related metabolic myopathy: a postviral fatigue syndrome.

OBJECTIVE To detect and characterise enterovirus RNA in skeletal muscle from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and to compare efficiency of muscle energy metabolism in enterovirus positive and negative CFS patients. METHODS Quadriceps muscle biopsy samples from 48 patients with CFS were processed to detect enterovirus RNA by two stage, reverse transcription, nested polymerase chain...

Antibody to Coxsackie B virus in diagnosing postviral fatigue syndrome.

OBJECTIVE To study the association between coxsackie B virus infection and the postviral fatigue syndrome and to assess the immunological abnormalities associated with the syndrome. DESIGN Case-control study of patients with the postviral fatigue syndrome referred by local general practitioners over one year. SETTING General practitioner referrals in Dunbartonshire, Scotland. PATIENTS 254...