West Nile Virus Encephalitis in a Kidney Transplant Recipient |
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| Authors: | James C. Shepherd Aruna Subramanian Robert A. Montgomery Milagros D. Samaniego Gary Gong Amy Bergmann David Blythe Lesia Dropulic |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. jshepha1@jhmi.edu |
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| Abstract: | We describe a case of West Nile virus encephalitis in a 54-year-old kidney transplant recipient. The clinical course was rapid and fatal. Serial CSF samples showed an evolving mononuclear pleiocytosis and serial MRIs showed increasing signs of cytotoxic edema in her basal ganglia. Seroepidemiological testing indicated that the infection was most likely acquired from transfusion of fresh frozen plasma at the time of transplantation. |
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| Keywords: | Organ transplantation transfusion West Nile virus |
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