An Unusual Case of Myelitis with Myositis
Published: May 1, 2016 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2016/.7777
Neera Choudhary, Prashant Makhija, Vinod Puri, Geeta Anjum Khwaja, Ashish Duggal
1. Professor, Department of Neurology, G.B. Pant Hospital, Delhi, India.
2. Senior Resident, Department of Neurology, G.B. Pant Hospital, Delhi, India.
3. Director, Professor, Department of Neurology, G.B. Pant Hospital, Delhi, India.
4. Director, Professor and Head, Department of Neurology, G.B. Pant Hospital, Delhi, India.
5. Senior Resident, Department of Neurology, G.B. Pant Hospital, Delhi, India.
Correspondence
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.
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