Fulminant hepatic failure caused by adenovirus infection following bone marrow transplantation for Hodgkin's disease. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Adenoviruses are increasingly realised to be responsible for serious morbidity and mortality following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. We describe a case of fulminant hepatic failure due to adenovirus serotype 2 in a 39-year-old woman who received a matched sibling allogeneic bone marrow transplant for multiply relapsed Hodgkin's disease. Isolated fulminant hepatic failure caused by this serotype of adenovirus has not previously been described.

publication date

  • July 1, 1999

Research

keywords

  • Adenoviridae Infections
  • Adenoviruses, Human
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Hepatic Encephalopathy
  • Hodgkin Disease

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0032801765

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701854

PubMed ID

  • 10435743

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 24

issue

  • 1