Acute autonomic neuropathy following primary herpes simplex infection

Abstract

A 13-year-old girl presented with postural hypotension, severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea, parotid pain and a transient encephalopathy. There was evidence of an acute autonomic neuropathy and some electrophysiological evidence of a transient peripheral somatic neuropathy. The likely cause was primary herpes simplex infection.