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Herpes Simplex virus type 2 myeloradiculitis with a pure motor presentation in a liver transplant recipient.

Elena AbatiDelia GagliardiDaniele VelardoMegi MeneriGiorgio ConteClaudia CinnanteNereo BresolinGiacomo ComiStefania Corti
Published in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2020)
In this case report, we describe the first PCR-confirmed case of HSV2 myeloradiculitis with a purely motor presentation, occurring in a 68-year-old liver transplant recipient. The patient reported ascending weakness with no sensory nor sphincteric symptoms, thereby resembling acute demyelinating inflammatory neuropathy, or Guillain-Barré syndrome. HSV2 was detected in cerebrospinal fluid by PCR, and the patient was successfully treated with intravenous Acyclovir.
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