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Asociación Colombiana de Medicina Interna
2020
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- Herpes simplex virus-1 encephalitis in a kidney transplant patient Jessica Pinto-Ramírez Nasly Gisell Patiño-Jaramillo Andrea Elena García-López Fernando Girón-Luque Medicina Kidney transplant antibiotic prophylaxis herpes simplex encephalitis The incidence of herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) infection in kidney transplant patients is 3% in those who have received antiviral prophylaxis versus 9.8% without prophylaxis. Herpes viruses usually cause mucocutaneous lesions and only occasionally cause visceral disease or central nervous system infection in immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients. The gold standard for diagnosis is DNA detection using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the affected organ. According to the literature, it is treated with acyclovir, with which remission is expected in most cases without sequelae. Here we present the clinical case of a kidney transplant patient who had HSV-1 encephalitis (with the virus detected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through PCR), and received the standard treatment with complete recovery of his neurological state. (Acta Med Colomb 2020; 45. DOI:org.siir.client.entities.ExtLink@14ae442). 2020 otro 0120-2448 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=163164976006 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/1631/163164976006/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/1631/163164976006/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/1631/163164976006/163164976006.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/1631/163164976006/movil 10.36104/amc.2020.1387 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1631 Acta Médica Colombiana application/pdf Asociación Colombiana de Medicina Interna Acta Médica Colombiana (Colombia) Num.2 Vol.45