Human Herpesvirus 6 Associated Encephalitis with Fulminant Brain Edema in a Previously Healthy Child

Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) is an important cause of roseola and febrile seizures in children. However, it is also a rare cause of encephalitis, most common in immunosuppressed children. We describe a case of HHV-6 encephalitis with fulminant brain edema in a previously healthy child. This severe HH...

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Autores principales: Sevilla-Acosta, Fabricio, Araya-Amador, Juliana, Ulate-Campos, Adriana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7279708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528757
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8018
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author Sevilla-Acosta, Fabricio
Araya-Amador, Juliana
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description Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) is an important cause of roseola and febrile seizures in children. However, it is also a rare cause of encephalitis, most common in immunosuppressed children. We describe a case of HHV-6 encephalitis with fulminant brain edema in a previously healthy child. This severe HHV-6 clinical case with lethal brain edema is the second reported in the literature in a previously healthy child.
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spelling pubmed-72797082020-06-10 Human Herpesvirus 6 Associated Encephalitis with Fulminant Brain Edema in a Previously Healthy Child Sevilla-Acosta, Fabricio Araya-Amador, Juliana Ulate-Campos, Adriana Cureus Neurology Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) is an important cause of roseola and febrile seizures in children. However, it is also a rare cause of encephalitis, most common in immunosuppressed children. We describe a case of HHV-6 encephalitis with fulminant brain edema in a previously healthy child. This severe HHV-6 clinical case with lethal brain edema is the second reported in the literature in a previously healthy child. Cureus 2020-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7279708/ /pubmed/32528757 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8018 Text en Copyright © 2020, Sevilla-Acosta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Human Herpesvirus 6 Associated Encephalitis with Fulminant Brain Edema in a Previously Healthy Child
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title_fullStr Human Herpesvirus 6 Associated Encephalitis with Fulminant Brain Edema in a Previously Healthy Child
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title_short Human Herpesvirus 6 Associated Encephalitis with Fulminant Brain Edema in a Previously Healthy Child
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7279708/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8018
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