Vegetative chronic genital herpes with satisfactory response to imiquimod

Vegetative chronic genital herpes is an atypical presentation of herpes simplex 2 that it is usually seen in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus. Clinically, it is characterized by extensive ulcers that evolve to chronification and hypertrophic pseudotumor forms. Antiviral drugs ar...

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Autores principales: Siqueira, Stella Meireles, Gonçalves, Bruna Barroso, Loss, Julia Bozetti, Estrella, Rogerio Ribeiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6486068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31090830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20198014
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author Siqueira, Stella Meireles
Gonçalves, Bruna Barroso
Loss, Julia Bozetti
Estrella, Rogerio Ribeiro
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description Vegetative chronic genital herpes is an atypical presentation of herpes simplex 2 that it is usually seen in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus. Clinically, it is characterized by extensive ulcers that evolve to chronification and hypertrophic pseudotumor forms. Antiviral drugs are recommended for the treatment, and acyclovir is the most used one. Foscarnet is the treatment of choice to resistant cases, although treatment failure has been reported. We report a male patient, previously diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus who developed vegetative chronic genital herpes resistant to acyclovir and successfully treated with imiquimod.
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spelling pubmed-64860682019-04-30 Vegetative chronic genital herpes with satisfactory response to imiquimod Siqueira, Stella Meireles Gonçalves, Bruna Barroso Loss, Julia Bozetti Estrella, Rogerio Ribeiro An Bras Dermatol Case Report Vegetative chronic genital herpes is an atypical presentation of herpes simplex 2 that it is usually seen in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus. Clinically, it is characterized by extensive ulcers that evolve to chronification and hypertrophic pseudotumor forms. Antiviral drugs are recommended for the treatment, and acyclovir is the most used one. Foscarnet is the treatment of choice to resistant cases, although treatment failure has been reported. We report a male patient, previously diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus who developed vegetative chronic genital herpes resistant to acyclovir and successfully treated with imiquimod. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6486068/ /pubmed/31090830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20198014 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited and the work is not changed in any way.
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Vegetative chronic genital herpes with satisfactory response to imiquimod
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title_fullStr Vegetative chronic genital herpes with satisfactory response to imiquimod
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title_short Vegetative chronic genital herpes with satisfactory response to imiquimod
title_sort vegetative chronic genital herpes with satisfactory response to imiquimod
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6486068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31090830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20198014
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