An Unusual Case of Myelitis with Myositis
Correspondence Address :
Dr. Neera Choudhary,
Department of Neurology, Academic Block, Room No. -503, G.B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi-110002, India.
E-mail : ashishduggal2005@rediffmail.com
The Chikungunya virus belonging to genus alphavirus and family togaviridae causes an arthropod-borne self-limiting febrile illness in humans. Neurological complications are rare with myelitis being even a rarer presentation. We report here a patient with Chikungunya fever who developed acute transverse myelitis with myositis during the convalescent period.
Chikungunya, Myopathy, Spinal cord
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2016/13095.7777
Date of Submission: Jan 19, 2015
Date of Peer Review: Apr 25, 2015
Date of Acceptance: Jun 26, 2015
Date of Publishing: May 01, 2016
Financial OR OTHER COMPETING INTERESTS: None.
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