Late onset cytomegalovirus encephalitis after reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic SCT: An emerging neurological complication

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 455-456

  Candoni, A ^a   Simeone, E ^a   Buttignol, S ^a   Volpetti, S ^a   Lazzarotto, T ^b   Pipan, C ^a   Fanin, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; FOSCARNET SODIUM; GANCICLOVIR; THIOTEPA; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LETHARGY; LETTER; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

EID: 79952537323     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2010.123     Document Type: Letter

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