Varicella and Herpes Zoster

Patients at High Risk of Morbidity or Mortality from Varicella–Zoster VirusRecognition of the potential severity of varicella in immunocompromised patients dates from our post-mortem studies of two children who contracted chickenpox; one child had rheumatic fever and was receiving cortisone therapy, and the other was being treated for a neuroblastoma.96 , 97 The latter case demonstrated that in such patients infections with varicella–zoster virus may be bizarre. When death occurred, in addition to the generalized lesions that had appeared in continued crops for 17 days, there was a zosteriform concentration of lesions over the right T-10 dermatome.The risk of severe . . .