PMID- 21400833
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110503
LR  - 20110727
IS  - 0047-1852 (Print)
IS  - 0047-1852 (Linking)
VI  - 69
IP  - 3
DP  - 2011 Mar
TI  - [HHV-6 encephalopathy].
PG  - 423-8
AB  - Primary human herpesvirus 6(HHV-6) and HHV-7 infections cause exanthem subitum. 
      The disease is common febrile illness in infants, indeed these viruses rarely 
      cause encephalopathy. Recently, various types of encephalopathy have been 
      reported in the patient with HHV-6. Therefore, appropriate treatment should be 
      developed for each type of the encephalitis. Recent data suggest that HHV-6 
      reactivation is associated with encephalitis, which occurred in immunocompromised 
      patients. Typical clinical features of HHV-6 encephalitis in transplant 
      recipients were amnesia and MRI findings in the hippocampus. Thus, HHV-6 is 
      considered to be etiological agent for post-transplant acute limbic encephalitis. 
      It has been suggested that either ganciclovir or foscarnet has anti-viral effect 
      against HHV-6 in vitro. Therefore either of the two anti-viral drugs might be 
      useful for treatment of HHV-6 encephalitis.
FAU - Kawamura, Yoshiki
AU  - Kawamura Y
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Fujita Health University School of Medicine.
FAU - Yoshikawa, Tetsushi
AU  - Yoshikawa T
LA  - jpn
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Japan
TA  - Nihon Rinsho
JT  - Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine
JID - 0420546
SB  - IM
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - *Encephalitis, Viral
MH  - *Herpesvirus 6, Human/physiology
MH  - Herpesvirus 7, Human
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - *Roseolovirus Infections
MH  - Virus Activation
EDAT- 2011/03/16 06:00
MHDA- 2011/05/04 06:00
CRDT- 2011/03/16 06:00
PHST- 2011/03/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/03/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/05/04 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nihon Rinsho. 2011 Mar;69(3):423-8.