Herpes simplex esophagitis in an immunocompetent host: a case report

Esophagitis caused by Herpes Simplex virus is a well-recognized opportunistic infection in the immunocompromised or severely ill host. However, it is uncommon in otherwise immunocompetent host. It usually responds well to a course of acyclovir. We report a case of young female without any other immu...

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Autores principales: Upadhaya Regmi, Binit, Subedi, Ram Chandra, Mandal, Sujit Kumar, Kunwar, Shova, Karki, Binod
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8557428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34729190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omab091
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author Upadhaya Regmi, Binit
Subedi, Ram Chandra
Mandal, Sujit Kumar
Kunwar, Shova
Karki, Binod
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description Esophagitis caused by Herpes Simplex virus is a well-recognized opportunistic infection in the immunocompromised or severely ill host. However, it is uncommon in otherwise immunocompetent host. It usually responds well to a course of acyclovir. We report a case of young female without any other immunocompromised state who presented with severe dysphagia. She was diagnosed endoscopically and later with histopathology and recovered well after a course of acyclovir.
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spelling pubmed-85574282021-11-01 Herpes simplex esophagitis in an immunocompetent host: a case report Upadhaya Regmi, Binit Subedi, Ram Chandra Mandal, Sujit Kumar Kunwar, Shova Karki, Binod Oxf Med Case Reports Case Report Esophagitis caused by Herpes Simplex virus is a well-recognized opportunistic infection in the immunocompromised or severely ill host. However, it is uncommon in otherwise immunocompetent host. It usually responds well to a course of acyclovir. We report a case of young female without any other immunocompromised state who presented with severe dysphagia. She was diagnosed endoscopically and later with histopathology and recovered well after a course of acyclovir. Oxford University Press 2021-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8557428/ /pubmed/34729190 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omab091 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Herpes simplex esophagitis in an immunocompetent host: a case report
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title_fullStr Herpes simplex esophagitis in an immunocompetent host: a case report
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title_short Herpes simplex esophagitis in an immunocompetent host: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8557428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34729190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omab091
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