- Titel
- Transient Olfactory Disturbance in Varicella Zoster Reactivation
- Untertitel
- A Case Report
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-946454
- Quellenangabe
- The laryngoscope
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Jahrgang: 133
Heft: 10
Seiten: 2751-2753
E-ISSN: 1531-4995 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2023
- Abstract (EN)
- Varicella zoster virus (VZV) is a highly contagious DNA virus, which causes varicella (chickenpox). After healing it persists in ganglionic neurons. Herpes zoster can occur in childhood after both wild-type childhood varicella and varicella vaccination. Due to several reasons, the virus can reactivate and cause zoster (shingles), which causes a battery of complications, for example, post-zoster neuralgia and meningoencephalitis including cerebellitis or vasculopathy. Only one case report including two men suffering from olfactory impairment and parosmia with Ramsey Hunt syndrome was published.1 Both suffered from loss of olfactory function and one patient reported additionally about parosmia. One patient reported spontaneous olfactory recovery after weeks, without exact time range. The other one reported olfactory recovery 3 weeks after therapy with chloramphenicol and vitamin B1.1 We report about a 15-year-old girl suffering from Ramsey Hunt syndrome. This patient additionally had olfactory impairment, which lasted for 6 months.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Link zum Artikel, der zuerst in der Zeitschrift „The laryngoscope” im Wiley Verlag erschienen ist.
DOI: 10.1002/lary.30924 - Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- olfactory dysfunction, varicella zoster, Ramsey Hunt syndrome
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 610
- Verlag
- Wiley, Malden, MA
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-946454
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 16.01.2025
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0