Encephalitis owing to human herpes virus-6 after cardiac transplant

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1200-1203

  Nash, Patrick J ^a   Avery, Robin K ^a   Tang, W H Wilson ^a   Starling, Randall C ^a   Taege, Alan J ^a   Yamani, Mohamad H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Heart transplantation; Herpesvirus

Indexed keywords

FOSCARNET; VIRUS DNA; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONFUSION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REACTIVATION; ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FOSCARNET; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 3042825188     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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