Donor-derived fulminant herpes simplex virus hepatitis after liver transplantation: Two cases and review of literature.

Ilana ReinholdLaurent TeascaElena Requejo RodriguezThierry BerneyNicolas J MuellerMatthias HiltyRea AndermattFrancesca SaroPhilipp DutkowskiBeat MüllhauptChristian van Deldennull null

Published in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2023)

The occurrence of two fatal donor-derived hepatitis made the Swiss Transplant Infectious Diseases working group modify its national recommendations regarding pretransplant serostatus determination and HSV prophylaxis after liver transplantation. Further studies are needed to assess this approach.

Keyphrases

herpes simplex virus
infectious diseases
risk assessment
quality improvement
mass spectrometry
clinical practice
molecularly imprinted
solid phase extraction
case control
hepatitis b virus