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Fulminant varicella zoster infection with multiorgan involvement: a case report.

Sudheer P S Ahamed1, Abdullah Balkhair, Rajan Krishnan.   

Abstract

Varicella zoster infections are considered to be mild and ubiquitous infections predominantly affecting the paediatric population. However, in adults and in specific groups of patients, such as those who are immunosuppressed, varicella infections can be fulminant and life threatening. We here present a case report of a young female patient with a normal immune system who had a fulminant varicella infection with multiorgan involvement.

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Keywords:  Case report; Chickenpox; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Herpes virus 3, human; Oman; Pneumonia; Rhabdomyolysis

Year:  2008        PMID: 21748081      PMCID: PMC3074847     

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J        ISSN: 2075-051X


  6 in total

1.  Aging, immunity, and the varicella-zoster virus.

Authors:  Ann Arvin
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  2005-06-02       Impact factor: 91.245

2.  Rhabdomyolysis associated with varicella infection.

Authors:  M al-Langawi; M R al-Marri; H al Soub
Journal:  Int J Clin Pract       Date:  2001-09       Impact factor: 2.503

3.  Severe complications of varicella in previously healthy children in Germany: a 1-year survey.

Authors:  C Ziebold; R von Kries; R Lang; J Weigl; H J Schmitt
Journal:  Pediatrics       Date:  2001-11       Impact factor: 7.124

4.  Chickenpox complications in Saudi Arabia: Is it time for routine varicella vaccination?

Authors:  Maha Almuneef; Ziad A Memish; Hanan H Balkhy; Badriyah Alotaibi; Magda Helmy
Journal:  Int J Infect Dis       Date:  2005-11-02       Impact factor: 3.623

5.  Perspective on live varicella vaccine.

Authors:  Anne A Gershon; Samuel L Katz
Journal:  J Infect Dis       Date:  2008-03-01       Impact factor: 5.226

Review 6.  Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and rhabdomyolysis in fulminant varicella infection--case report and review of the literature.

Authors:  U Hollenstein; F Thalhammer; H Burgmann
Journal:  Infection       Date:  1998 Sep-Oct       Impact factor: 7.455

  6 in total

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