Successful liver transplantation in a kidney and pancreas allograft recipient with fulminant herpes simplex virus type 2 hepatitis

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2007 Nov;22(11):3334-7. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfm550. Epub 2007 Aug 23.

Authors

Athina Ganner¹, Young-Min A Lee, Caroline Busche, Annette Schmitt-Graeff, Jens Encke, Gerd Walz, Peter Gerke

Affiliation

¹ Renal Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg, Hugstetterstrasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.

PMID: 17717028
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm550

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acyclovir / therapeutic use
Adult
Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use
Biopsy, Needle
Female
Foscarnet / therapeutic use
Hepatitis, Viral, Human / surgery*
Herpes Simplex / drug therapy
Herpes Simplex / pathology
Herpes Simplex / surgery*
Herpesvirus 2, Human*
Humans
Kidney Transplantation / physiology*
Liver / pathology
Liver Transplantation / physiology*
Pancreas Transplantation / physiology*
Transplantation, Homologous
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Antiviral Agents
Foscarnet
Acyclovir