Neonatal herpes simplex virus presenting with isolated liver failure

Disseminated neonatal herpes simplex virus infection usually presents with multi-organ involvement. Untreated, this disease has a mortality rate of approximately 80%. Here, we describe a well-appearing 3-week old infant with isolated compensated hepatic failure caused by HSV-2.

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Autores principales: Aswad, Marwan Al, Suryadevara, Manika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26839769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2014.03.001
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spelling pubmed-47354612016-02-02 Neonatal herpes simplex virus presenting with isolated liver failure Aswad, Marwan Al Suryadevara, Manika IDCases Case Report Disseminated neonatal herpes simplex virus infection usually presents with multi-organ involvement. Untreated, this disease has a mortality rate of approximately 80%. Here, we describe a well-appearing 3-week old infant with isolated compensated hepatic failure caused by HSV-2. Elsevier 2014-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4735461/ /pubmed/26839769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2014.03.001 Text en © 2014 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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Neonatal herpes simplex virus presenting with isolated liver failure
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title_full_unstemmed Neonatal herpes simplex virus presenting with isolated liver failure
title_short Neonatal herpes simplex virus presenting with isolated liver failure
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26839769
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