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Fulminant Hepatic Failure due to Varicella Zoster in a Heart Transplant Patient: Successful Liver Transplant
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 10/28/09
Alvite–Canosa M et al. – Fulminant hepatic failure is a rare complication of infection by varicella zoster virus that is favored by immunosuppression. Within 1 week, a 43–year–old male heart transplant recipient who was admitted with epigastric pain successively developed a generalized vesicular rash, hepatitis, and secondary multiorganic failure involving encephalopathy, despite treatment with acyclovir (since Day 2) and varicella zoster virus immunoglobulin (since Day 6).
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