West Nile virus encephalitis causing fatal CNS toxicity after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-112

  Reddy, P ^a   Davenport, R ^b   Ratanatharathorn, V ^a   Reynolds, C ^a   Silver, S ^a   Ayash, L ^a   Ferrara, J L M ^a   Uberti, J P ^a  

^a Adult Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Meningoencephalitis allogeneic bone marrow transplantation; West nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARAGINASE; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; IMATINIB; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN TISSUE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEVER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MORTALITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME POSITIVE CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WHITE MATTER;

AUTOPSY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 0742289440     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704293     Document Type: Article

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