Herpesvirus-6 encephalitis complicated by wernicke-korsakoff syndrome in a pediatric recipient of unrelated cord blood transplantation

American Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 626-628

  Carvajal, Eva ^a   Verdeguer, Amparo ^a   Fernández, Jose Maria ^a   Cañete, Adela ^a   Castel, Victoria ^a  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cord blood transplant; HHV 6; Unrelated transplant; Viral encephalitis; Wernicke Korsakoff

Indexed keywords

FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE COURSE; DYSGEUSIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; LUNG LAVAGE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DISORDER; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREMOR; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; ETOPOSIDE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; RECURRENCE; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 0035696155     PISSN: 01928562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043426-200112000-00016     Document Type: Article

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