Simultaneous human herpesvirus 6-associated encephalitis and Guillain-Barré syndrome in a patient after matched unrelated donor haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 288-290

  Tomaszewska, Agnieszka ^a   Nasilowska Adamska, Barbara ^a   Dzieciatkowski, Tomasz ^b   Marianska, Bozena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Guillain Barr syndrome; Haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients; Human herpesvirus 6

Indexed keywords

CIDOFOVIR; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENCEPHALITIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

EID: 77951969626     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2010.13912     Document Type: Article

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