Encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Cytomegalovirus generally causes self-limited, mild and asymptomatic infections in immunocompetent patients. An aggressive course in immunocompetent healthy patients is unusual. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of an immunocompetent 16-year-old Egyptian boy with encephalitis, acut...

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Autores principales: Khattab, Mahmoud Aboelneen, Eslam, Mohammed, Abd-elfattah, Mohammed Emad
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-9289
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author Khattab, Mahmoud Aboelneen
Eslam, Mohammed
Abd-elfattah, Mohammed Emad
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description INTRODUCTION: Cytomegalovirus generally causes self-limited, mild and asymptomatic infections in immunocompetent patients. An aggressive course in immunocompetent healthy patients is unusual. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of an immunocompetent 16-year-old Egyptian boy with encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by viral infection with a complete recovery following antiviral treatment. CONCLUSION: We believe that this case adds to the understanding of the molecular biology, clinical presentation and increasing index of suspicion of many viral infections.
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spelling pubmed-28038132010-01-10 Encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report Khattab, Mahmoud Aboelneen Eslam, Mohammed Abd-elfattah, Mohammed Emad J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Cytomegalovirus generally causes self-limited, mild and asymptomatic infections in immunocompetent patients. An aggressive course in immunocompetent healthy patients is unusual. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of an immunocompetent 16-year-old Egyptian boy with encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by viral infection with a complete recovery following antiviral treatment. CONCLUSION: We believe that this case adds to the understanding of the molecular biology, clinical presentation and increasing index of suspicion of many viral infections. BioMed Central 2009-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2803813/ /pubmed/20062779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-9289 Text en Copyright ©2009 Khattab et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Khattab, Mahmoud Aboelneen
Eslam, Mohammed
Abd-elfattah, Mohammed Emad
Encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report
title Encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report
title_full Encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report
title_fullStr Encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report
title_short Encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report
title_sort encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-9289
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