Long-term Outcomes of Patients With Human Herpesvirus 6 Encephalitis

Human herpesviruses 6 (HHV-6) A and B cause encephalitis in patients with hematologic malignancies, especially those undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In this cohort of 10 patients, persistent neurologic deficits associated with moderate to severe bilateral hippocampal a...

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Autores principales: Fida, Madiha, Hamdi, Ahmed M, Bryson, Alexandra, Razonable, Raymund R, Abu Saleh, Omar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6634437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31334297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz269
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author Fida, Madiha
Hamdi, Ahmed M
Bryson, Alexandra
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description Human herpesviruses 6 (HHV-6) A and B cause encephalitis in patients with hematologic malignancies, especially those undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In this cohort of 10 patients, persistent neurologic deficits associated with moderate to severe bilateral hippocampal atrophy were characteristic long-term findings, despite prolonged antiviral treatment.
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spelling pubmed-66344372019-07-22 Long-term Outcomes of Patients With Human Herpesvirus 6 Encephalitis Fida, Madiha Hamdi, Ahmed M Bryson, Alexandra Razonable, Raymund R Abu Saleh, Omar Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Human herpesviruses 6 (HHV-6) A and B cause encephalitis in patients with hematologic malignancies, especially those undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In this cohort of 10 patients, persistent neurologic deficits associated with moderate to severe bilateral hippocampal atrophy were characteristic long-term findings, despite prolonged antiviral treatment. Oxford University Press 2019-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6634437/ /pubmed/31334297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz269 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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