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Natividad Benito1, M José Ricart, Tomás Pumarola, M Angeles Marcos, Federico Oppenheimer, Asunción Moreno Camacho.
Abstract
We describe the first known case of symptomatic infection resulting from human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant recipients. The role of HHV-6 in solid-organ transplant recipients is not well defined. In hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT) HHV-6 may cause fever, rash, myelosuppression, interstitial pneumonitis, and encephalitis.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15196082 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00449.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Transplant ISSN: 1600-6135 Impact factor: 8.086