Volume 24, Issue 103, May - June, 2020

Temporal lobe epilepsy: A rare post chicken pox neurological sequel

Anuj Chaturvedi¹, Amrutha Garikapati^1♦, Charan Singh Bagga¹, Abhishek Chande¹, Sunil Kumar²

¹Post graduate Resident, Department of medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
²Professor, Department of medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India

^♦Corresponding author
Department of medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India; Email: ammu.garikapati@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Chicken pox caused by the varicella zoster virus is generally a benign, self-limited disease; very rarely presents with neurological complications especially in immunocompetent individuals. Here we report 19 year old girl with focal seizure in right lower limb and twitching of right angle of mouth with visual hallucination in the form of bizarre ghost moving around her after 10 days of chicken pox infection. Her electroencephalography was suggestive of temporal lobe epilepsy.

Keywords: Chicken pox, Neurological sequelae, Complications, temporal lobe epilepsy

Medical Science, 2020, 24(103), 1596-1599

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