Bilateral Mondor's disease in chikungunya virus infection

Sarah Djebara; Liesbet Henckaerts; Peter Vanbrabant

doi:10.1093/omcr/omaa065

Bilateral Mondor's disease in chikungunya virus infection

Oxf Med Case Reports. 2020 Aug 10;2020(8):omaa065. doi: 10.1093/omcr/omaa065. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Sarah Djebara¹, Liesbet Henckaerts^{2

3}, Peter Vanbrabant^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Infectious Diseases, Polyclinic Department, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
² Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Abstract

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus that is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and its main features are high fever and (debilitating) arthritis. Infection with CHIKV, as well as other viruses, has been associated with hypercoagulable states and may be linked with the development of venous thrombosis. In fact, the development of deep venous thrombosis has been described in CHIKV infection. We present a case of superficial thrombophlebitis of the thoracic wall, known as Mondor's disease, associated with CHIKV infection. To our knowledge, this probable association has never been described before.

Publication types

Case Reports