The patient was discharged on hospital day 3 with improving symptoms. Conclusion. HHV-6 meningoencephalitis has previously been described as a pathogen associated with individuals with immunosuppressive conditions. There have been several prior case reports of symptomatic meningoencephalitis in ...
In infants with signs and symptoms of classic roseola infantum, human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) can be the causative agent. However, since this diagnosis has various differential diagnoses, other causes for fever and rash should be excluded. In immunocompetent adults with symptomatic HHV-6 disease,...
Moreover, in PPR we found a persistent reactivation of HHV-6 and/or HHV-7 with higher viral loads than in typical PR, accounting for the unusual persistence of the illness, the more frequent and severer systemic symptoms and the oral lesions. In conclusion, we describe an unusual persistent...
She was subsequently transitioned to IV foscarnet for HHV-6B coverage and discharged after completing 21 days of therapy with marked improvement in her symptoms. Two weeks later, the patient was readmitted for recurrence of aphasia. MRI brain at that time was unremarkable with repeat lumbar ...
Both EBV and HHV-6 infections induced essentially the same clinical symptoms such that no clinical differential diagnosis was possible. It thus appears that infectious mononucleosis may represent one clinical disease occurring after acute HHV-6 infection of young adults in addition to the previously ...