Mehmet Ali ÖZCAN, İnci ALACACIOĞLU, Barış AKINCI, A. Arzu SAYINER, Müjde SOYTÜRK, Güner Hayri ÖZSAN, Fatih DEMİRKAN, Bülent ÜNDAR

Akut lenfoblastik lösemide varicella hepatit infeksiyonu

Varicella infeksiyonunun viseral hepatik tutulumu nadir görülür. Bağışıklığı baskılanmış bireylerde görüldüğünde ise sıklıkla ölümcül seyreder. Ancak erken ve yüksek doz asiklovir, varicella hepatit infeksiyonunun tedavisinde oldukça etkilidir. Burada akut lenfoblastik lösemi tanısı ile izlenen, viseral varicella hepatiti gelişmiş olgu erken ve etkin asiklovir tedavisi ile tamamen iyileşmesi nedeniyle sunulmuştur.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Su çiçeği, Lösemi, lenfositik, akut, Hepatit, viral, insan, Asiklovir

Varicella hepatitis in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Visceral hepatic involvement with varicella is uncommon but when it occurs, generally affects immune-supressed hosts and outcome is frequently fatal. But early therapeutic intervention with high dose acyclovir has been effective in the treatment of varicella hepatitis. Here we report a case with acute lymphoblastic leukemia developed visceral varicella hepatitis and recovered fully with early and effective treatment with acyclovir.

Keywords:

Chickenpox, Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Acute, Hepatitis, Viral, Human, Acyclovir,

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