Acute pancreatitis in immunocompromised patients: beware of varicella zoster virus primo‐infection

Varicella zoster virus (VZV) primo‐infection can be severe in the elderly and in immunocompromised patients. Atypical presentations are not uncommon and may mislead the diagnosis and delay adequate treatment. Valacyclovir prophylaxis should be systematically proposed in immunocompromised patients.

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Autores principales: Picod, Adrien, Corre, Elise, Maury, Eric, Duriez, Paul, Hoyeau, Nadia, Coppo, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1053
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author Picod, Adrien
Corre, Elise
Maury, Eric
Duriez, Paul
Hoyeau, Nadia
Coppo, Paul
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description Varicella zoster virus (VZV) primo‐infection can be severe in the elderly and in immunocompromised patients. Atypical presentations are not uncommon and may mislead the diagnosis and delay adequate treatment. Valacyclovir prophylaxis should be systematically proposed in immunocompromised patients.
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spelling pubmed-55382122017-08-04 Acute pancreatitis in immunocompromised patients: beware of varicella zoster virus primo‐infection Picod, Adrien Corre, Elise Maury, Eric Duriez, Paul Hoyeau, Nadia Coppo, Paul Clin Case Rep Case Reports Varicella zoster virus (VZV) primo‐infection can be severe in the elderly and in immunocompromised patients. Atypical presentations are not uncommon and may mislead the diagnosis and delay adequate treatment. Valacyclovir prophylaxis should be systematically proposed in immunocompromised patients. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5538212/ /pubmed/28781838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1053 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Picod, Adrien
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Duriez, Paul
Hoyeau, Nadia
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Acute pancreatitis in immunocompromised patients: beware of varicella zoster virus primo‐infection
title Acute pancreatitis in immunocompromised patients: beware of varicella zoster virus primo‐infection
title_full Acute pancreatitis in immunocompromised patients: beware of varicella zoster virus primo‐infection
title_fullStr Acute pancreatitis in immunocompromised patients: beware of varicella zoster virus primo‐infection
title_full_unstemmed Acute pancreatitis in immunocompromised patients: beware of varicella zoster virus primo‐infection
title_short Acute pancreatitis in immunocompromised patients: beware of varicella zoster virus primo‐infection
title_sort acute pancreatitis in immunocompromised patients: beware of varicella zoster virus primo‐infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1053
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