• Scand. J. Gastroenterol. · Feb 2006

    Case Reports

    Visceral varicella zoster virus infection after stem cell transplantation: a possible cause of severe abdominal pain.

    • Mattila Leena, Valtonen Ville, and Anttila Veli-Jukka.
    • Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland. leena.mattila@hus.fi
    • Scand. J. Gastroenterol. 2006 Feb 1; 41 (2): 242-4.

    AbstractReactivation of varicella zoster virus (VZV) is a common event after stem cell transplantation (SCT). When activated in the abdominal cavity, the infection may be life threatening. Visceral presentation with VZV infection is uncommon, although probably an under-diagnosed event in post-SCT patients. The interval from onset of abdominal pain to the development of skin eruptions may delay the initiation of specific antiviral therapy and symptoms may be incorrectly diagnosed as surgical disease or graft-versus-host disease. We describe the case of a 53-year-old man who had undergone stem cell autograft for multiple myeloma and developed visceral VZV infection with hepatitis, melaena and subileus 7 months later.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…