Lethal human herpesvirus-6 encephalitis after cord blood transplant

Transpl Infect Dis. 2011 Dec;13(6):646-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00642.x. Epub 2011 Aug 31.

Abstract

Clinical, biological, pathological, and imaging findings were all suggestive of lethal human herpesvirus-6-associated encephalitis in a 61-year-old man who had undergone a cord blood transplant. The neuropathological findings of this unusual autopsy case and the pathogenesis of this infection in immunocompromised patients are discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Encephalitis, Viral / complications*
  • Encephalitis, Viral / pathology
  • Herpesvirus 6, Human / isolation & purification
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / complications*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Postoperative Complications*
  • Roseolovirus Infections / complications*
  • Roseolovirus Infections / pathology