Fatal noncutaneous visceral infection with varicella-zoster virus in a patient with lymphoma after autologous bone marrow transplantation.
Publication/Presentation Date
4-1-1993
Abstract
After undergoing high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation, a patient developed fatal disseminated infection due to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) with no coincident skin lesions. This article describes this unusual case and briefly reviews the English-language literature on the abdominal presentation of VZV infection as well as that on VZV infection after bone marrow transplantation. In the severely immunocompromised host, visceral infection with VZV may uncommonly occur in the absence of skin lesions. The possibility of such infection should be considered when immunocompromised patients develop unusual symptoms or other evidence of visceral disease (e.g., cholecystitis).
Volume
16
Issue
4
First Page
497
Last Page
499
ISSN
1058-4838
Published In/Presented At
Stemmer, S. M., Kinsman, K., Tellschow, S., & Jones, R. B. (1993). Fatal noncutaneous visceral infection with varicella-zoster virus in a patient with lymphoma after autologous bone marrow transplantation. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 16(4), 497–499. https://doi.org/10.1093/clind/16.4.497
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
8513054
Department(s)
Fellows and Residents
Document Type
Article