Table 1 Demographic data of 13 patients with previous encephalitis caused by reactivated varicella-zoster virus.
Gender/age at follow-up | Education (years) | Viral load at acute disease (copies/ml) | MRI/CT at acute disease | Iv treat-ment (days) | Follow-up (mo. after symptom onset) | LP/cognitive testing at follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F/82 | 7 | 100 | MRI ND/CT neg | 4 | 85 | ND/Yes |
F/63 | 4,5 | 1,600,000 | MRI and CT neg | 7 | 53 | Yes/Yesc |
M/28 | 12 | 25,000 | MRI and CT neg | 8 | 42 | Yes/Yes |
F/24 | 12 | 400 | MRI ND/CT neg | 14 | 41 | Yes/Yes |
M/85 | 7 | 6,300 | Wide-spread white matter changes and general atrophy | a | 18 | Yes/Yes |
M/76 | 7 | 7,100 | Wide-spread white matter changes periventricularly and subcortically and spot-like changes in the basal ganglia | 7 | 91 | Yes/Yes |
M/52 | 11 | 20,000 | Left-sided thalamic and occipital ischemic changes | 13 | 91 | Yes/Yes |
F/34 | 13 | 25 million | ND | 12 | 39 | Yes/Yes |
M/74 | 10 | 500,000 | ND | 6 | 33 | Yes/Yes |
F/35 | 16 | 12,600 | MRI ND/CT neg | 10 | 36 | Yes/Yes |
M/32 | 15 | 31,600 | MRI and CT neg | 10 | 50 | Yes/Yes |
M/58 | 5 | NDb | MRI and CT neg | 14 | 20 | Yes/Yesc |
M/73 | ND | 316,000 | MRI neg/CT ND | 11 | 19 | Yes/ND |
