ArticleBMC infectious diseases2020
Unusual presentation of fatal disseminated varicella zoster virus infection in a patient with lupus nephritis: a case report.
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- Disseminated Varicella-Zoster Virus Infection with Internal Organ Involvement: A Scoping Review of 156 Cases.Viruses · 2025Article
- Fatal visceral disseminated varicella zoster virus infection during initial remission induction therapy in a patient with lupus nephritis: a case report and review of the literature.CEN case reports · 2025Review
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- A survival case of visceral disseminated varicella zoster virus infection in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.BMC nephrology · 2023Article
- Disseminated varicella-zoster virus infection in an aplastic anemia- paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria syndrome patient: A case report.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
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- Metagenomic analysis of a throat swab sample collected in China on a patient infected with Varicella Zoster Virus.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe risk of life-threatening complications, such as visceral disseminated varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection, is greater in immunosuppressed individuals, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, a case is reported of a Caucasian woman diagnosed with lupus nephritis and anti-phospholipid syndrome, who was subjected to mycophenolate mofetil and high-dose steroid remission-induction therapy. Two months later she developed abdominal pain followed by a fatal rapid multi-organ failure. As no typical skin rashes were evident, death was initially attributed to catastrophic anti-phospholipid syndrome. However, autopsy and virological examinations on archival material revealed a disseminated VZV infection.
conclusionsOverall, this case highlights the importance of having a high clinical suspicion of fatal VZV infections in heavily immunosuppressed SLE patients even when typical signs and symptoms are lacking.
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