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Fulminant hepatic failure caused by adenovirus infection following bone marrow transplantation for Hodgkin’s disease

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Adenoviruses are increasingly realised to be responsible for serious morbidity and mortality following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. We describe a case of fulminant hepatic failure due to adenovirus serotype 2 in a 39-year-old woman who received a matched sibling allogeneic bone marrow transplant for multiply relapsed Hodgkin’s disease. Isolated fulminant hepatic failure caused by this serotype of adenovirus has not previously been described.

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  1. Department of Haematology, University College Hospital, London, UK

    TCP Somervaille & S Mackinnon

  2. Department of Virology, University College Hospital, London, UK

    S Kirk

  3. Department of Histopathology, University College Hospital, London, UK

    A Dogan & GV Landon

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Somervaille, T., Kirk, S., Dogan, A. et al. Fulminant hepatic failure caused by adenovirus infection following bone marrow transplantation for Hodgkin’s disease. Bone Marrow Transplant 24, 99–101 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1701854

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