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Challenging complications of treatment – human herpes virus 6 encephalitis and pneumonitis in a patient undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation for relapsed Hodgkin's disease: a case report

BACKGROUND: Reactivation of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) occurs frequently in patients after allogeneic stem cell transplantation and is associated with bone-marrow suppression, enteritis, pneumonitis, pericarditis and also encephalitis. After autologous stem cell transplantation or intensive polyche...

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Autores principales: Bommer, Martin, Pauls, Sandra, Greiner, Jochen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19619326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-6-111