[Acute pancreatitis caused by varicella-zoster virus after liver transplantation].
Twenty-six days after liver transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis, a 52 year-old patient was rehospitalized for viral infection. The clinical features were fatigue, anorexia and vomiting. On physical examination, vesicular skin lesions involving the left 8 th intercostal space were suggestive of herpes-zoster infection. The following day the patient was extremely tired and dyspnoeic. The abdomen was distended with moderate abdominal epigastric pain. The clinical picture worsened rapidly and the patient died a few hours later. Autopsy revealed acute haemorrhagic necrosis of the pancreas due to herpes-zoster virus.
Coelho
J C
JC
Services de Chirurgie, l'Hôpital des Cliniques de l'Université Fédérale du Parana, Curitiba, Brésil.
Wiederkehr
J C
JC
Campos
A C
AC
Zeni Neto
C
C
Oliva
V
V
D000208:Acute Disease; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D014645:Herpesvirus 3, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology
Pancréatite aiguë par le virus varicella-zoster après une transplantation du foie.