Bartonella and amyotrophy

Full article: http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2010/08/13/jnnp.2009.191940.short?rss=1

Excerpt:

We report three patients with a brachial plexus neuropathy diagnosed as neuralgic amyotrophy (NA) preceded by a proven Bartonella henselae infection. Neuralgic amyotrophy is a disabling disease involving the brachial plexus, with attacks of severe shoulder and arm pain followed by weakness and sensory involvement.1 Several observations support the hypothesis of an immune-mediated genesis. First, brachial plexus biopsies of NA patients in the (sub)acute stage show inflammatory changes.2 3 Second, antiganglioside antibodies are reported to be associated with NA.1 4 Third, several immune-triggering events, most frequently infections (50%), are known to precede NA.1–4 Various micro-organisms preceding NA have been reported (see table 1) but not yet B henselae.
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