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Three-year-old girl's chickenpox caused her to have a STROKE
Lottie Evans was staying at a caravan park in Abersoch, North Wales, with her family on July 26, 2016 when she became clumsy, irritable and unable to walk.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Four-year-old suffered a stroke from the chickenpox
Sophie Fuller, four, of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, has been left brain damaged. Her mother Tracy, 33, said: 'This is going to be a long journey. It has completely changed our lives.'
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 28, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Hemorrhagic stroke and cerebral venous thrombosis: rare neurological sequelae of chickenpox infection
Anuradha Mehta, Aanchal Arora, Manoj Sharma, Rupali Malik, Yogesh Chandra PorwalAnnals of Indian Academy of Neurology 2018 21(3):228-232 Chickenpox (varicella) is primarily a disease of childhood which occurs due to infection with varicella-zoster virus (VZV). Primary VZV infection is rare in adults due to exposure in early childhood in our country. In adults, it is associated with some serious systemic and neurological complications which can follow both primary infection and reactivation of VZV. Neurological sequelae caused by primary VZV infection are rare and include encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, myelitis, acute c...
Source: Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology - September 4, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Anuradha Mehta Aanchal Arora Manoj Sharma Rupali Malik Yogesh Chandra Porwal Source Type: research

Herpes zoster ophthalmicus with associated vasculopathy causing stroke. Antia, Camila; Persad, Leah; Alikhan, Ali
Varicella zoster virus (VZV) is an exclusively human, double-stranded DNA virus. Primary infection causes varicella (chickenpox); later the virus becomes dormant in the dorsal root, cranial nerve, and autonomic ganglia along the entire span of the nervous system, retaining the capacity to reactivate and cause a variety of dermal and neurological complications. Recently there has been increasing recognition, both clinically and epidemiologically, of the relationship between VZV and subsequent strokes. Herein, we describe a case of a previously healthy individual with reactivation of VZV causing herpes zoster opthtalmicus al...
Source: Dermatology Online Journal - July 22, 2017 Category: Dermatology Source Type: research

Is Shingles Tied to Heart, Stroke Risk?
TUESDAY, July 4, 2017 -- Shingles may be tied to an increased risk for heart disease, a new study suggests. About one-third of Americans will develop shingles in their lifetime. The painful skin rash can occur in anyone who ' s had chickenpox, and...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - July 4, 2017 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Varicella Zoster Virus: A Common Cause of Stroke in Children and Adults
Varicella zoster virus (VZV) is a neurotropic, exclusively human herpesvirus. Primary infection causes varicella (chickenpox), after which the virus becomes latent in ganglionic neurons along the entire neuraxis. As cell-mediated immunity to VZV declines with advancing age and immunosuppression, VZV reactivates to produce zoster (shingles). One of the most serious complications of zoster is VZV vasculopathy.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - April 28, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Catherine Amlie-Lefond, Don Gilden Tags: Review Article Source Type: research

Shingles associated with short-term increased risk of stroke.
Authors: Abstract The varicella zoster virus causes varicella, or chickenpox, before becoming latent in neurones. As immunity decreases in older and immunocompromised individuals, the virus reactivates to produce herpes zoster, or shingles. More than 95% of the world's adult population is infected and up to one third will develop shingles in their lifetime. PMID: 27029983 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Nursing Older People - March 30, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: Nurs Older People Source Type: research

Don’t shrug off shingles
If you had chickenpox as a kid, there is a good chance you may develop shingles later in life. “In fact, one in three is predicted to get shingles during their lifetime,” says Dr. Anne Louise Oaklander, director of the Nerve Unit at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. The same varicella-zoster virus that causes chickenpox also causes shingles. After the telltale spots of chickenpox vanish, the virus lies dormant in your nerve cells near the spinal cord and brain. When your immunity weakens from normal aging or from illnesses or medications, the virus can re-emerge. It then travels along a nerve to trigge...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - February 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Solan Tags: Healthy Aging Infectious diseases Vaccines Source Type: news

Medical News Today: Shingles may lead to stroke and heart attack
The herpes zoster virus causes chickenpox and shingles; following shingles, there appears to be a higher risk of acute cardiovascular events such as stroke or myocardial infarction
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news

Pilot study of antibodies against varicella zoster virus and human immunodeficiency virus in relation to the risk of developing stroke, nested within a rural cohort in Uganda
ConclusionsThis is the first prospective study to examine a biological measure of exposure to VZV prior to diagnosis of stroke and although we identified no significant association, in this small pilot, with limited characterisation of cases, we cannot exclude the possibility that the virus is causal for a subset. The impact of HIV on risk of stroke has not been well characterised and warrants further study.
Source: Tropical Medicine and International Health - July 23, 2015 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Gershim Asiki, Lisa Stockdale, Ivan Kasamba, Tobias Vudriko, Grace Tumwekwase, Tom Johnston, Pontiano Kaleebu, Anatoli Kamali, Janet Seeley, Robert Newton Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Pilot study of antibodies against Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in relation to the risk of developing stroke, nested within a rural cohort in Uganda
ConclusionsThis is the first prospective study to examine a biological measure of exposure to VZV prior to diagnosis of stroke and although we identified no significant association, in this small pilot, with limited characterisation of cases, we cannot exclude the possibility that the virus is causal for a subset. The impact of HIV on risk of stroke has not been well characterised and warrants further study.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Tropical Medicine and International Health - June 17, 2015 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Gershim Asiki, Lisa Stockdale, Ivan Kasamba, Tobias Vudriko, Grace Tumwekwase, Tom Johnston, Pontiano Kaleebu, Anatoli Kamali, Janet Seeley, Robert Newton Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

How chickenpox virus can cause a stroke in an HIV patient
Varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox in children and shingles in older adults. The virus typically remains dormant in patients with healthy immune systems, but can reactivate if the immune system is compromised. Patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can, in rare cases, experience bleeding on the brain that causes a type of stroke called intracerebral hemorrhage.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 4, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Does chickenpox cause childhood stroke?
Source: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health - March 11, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Heads Up Source Type: research