A Parsonage-Turner Syndrome secondary to Parvovirus B19 infection

Acta Biomed. 2021 Apr 30;92(S1):e2021129. doi: 10.23750/abm.v92iS1.10702.

Abstract

Parvovirus B19 (PVB19) is a small DNA virus that causes the fifth disease in children; however it can also affect adults. The infection can be asymptomatic in about a quarter of healthy subjects. Typical clinical manifestations are: short lived fever accompanied by asthenia, myalgias and pharyngodynia; symmetrical acute polyarthritis; megalo-erytema in child; maculopulotic rash and/or fleeting purpuric at the extremities in adult; adenopathies in the cervical area. Atypical manifestions can affect neurological system (both central and peripheral), hearth and kidney. We describe a 37-year-old man with neuralgic amyotrophy (Parsonage-Turner syndrome) caused by Parvovirus B19 infection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brachial Plexus Neuritis* / diagnosis
  • Erythema Infectiosum* / complications
  • Erythema Infectiosum* / diagnosis
  • Exanthema*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Parvovirus B19, Human*