CMV encephalitis in BMT recipients

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 318-320

  Sarva, H ^a   Graber, J ^b   Remanan, R ^c   Rosenblum, M ^b   Omuro, A ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CIDOFOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; IDARUBICIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MITOXANTRONE; RITUXIMAB; THIOTEPA; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VALACICLOVIR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ALLOGENEIC PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISORIENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; KIDNEY ABSCESS; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LETHARGY; LETTER; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCYTOPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS REACTIVATION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 84857035428     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2011.80     Document Type: Letter

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