Fatal human herpesvirus-6 infection after renal transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 762-765

  Pilmore, Helen ^a,b   Collins, John ^a   Dittmer, Ian ^a   Williams, Laurie ^a   Carpenter, Logan ^a   Thomas, Stephen ^a   Croxson, Margaret ^a   Thomas, Mark ^a  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Colitis; Human herpesvirus 6; Renal transplant; Valganciclovir.

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BILIRUBIN; CYCLOSPORIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADENOMATOSIS; ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ASCITES; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOPENIA; DETERIORATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATALITY; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; ORGAN DONOR; PANCYTOPENIA; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SIGMOID; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIROLOGY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; COLITIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; FATAL OUTCOME; GENETIC VARIATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; TISSUE DONORS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 70350532337     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181b4749f     Document Type: Article

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