ALLMedicine™ Mononucleosis Center

Jul 30th, 2021 - Primary Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection may present with self-limiting abdominal involvement, characterized by hepatitis with mild elevation of aminotransferases, splenomegaly, and rarely with acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC). Usually, trea...

Jul 15th, 2021 - Acute retroviral syndrome is the symptomatic presentation of acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, which often manifests as a self-limited infectious mononucleosis-like syndrome and occurs 2 to 6 weeks after exposure to HIV. Atypical...

Jun 27th, 2021 - Lemierre's syndrome following infectious mononucleosis: an unusual reason for neck pain.|2021|Maier-Stocker C,Hellwig D,Hanses F,|therapeutic use,therapeutic use,analysis,therapeutic use,therapeutic use,complications,drug therapy,etiology,diagnosi...

May 18th, 2021 - Cytomegalovirus is a viral genus of the overarching family Herpesviridae, and is of particular importance because of its relevance to human disease. This association is predominantly due to human cytomegalovirus, a well-studied pathogen. In additi...

May 7th, 2021 - Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare condition of uncontrolled immune activation as a result of an inherited genetic defect or in response to malignancy, autoimmune disease, rheumatological disease, AIDS infection or post-transplant...

Feb 18th, 2020 - Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) belongs to herpesviridae family, which infects more than 90% of the population. EBV infection is usually asymptomatic and establishes lifelong persistence in the host, although primary infection later than adolescence freq...

Nov 1st, 2019 - The potency of new immunosuppressive agents has reduced the risk of the body's immune system rejecting a transplanted kidney. However, this has come with a price. Kidney transplant recipients now face a higher risk of serious infections and relate...

Mar 5th, 2019 - The investigators seek to determine whether the presence of splenomegaly on POCUS can accurately diagnose acute infectious mononucleosis in symptomatic ED patients, and determine the feasibility of performing point-of-care ultrasound for splenomeg...

Oct 11th, 2018 - Herpes viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) cause considerable morbidity and mortality post-kidney transplant. Even subclinical CMV and/or EBV viremia have been associated with deterioration in kidney transplant funct...

Dec 5th, 2017 - Grey matter (GM) atrophy develops early in the multiple sclerosis (MS) disease process. Over 2 years, clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) patients developed significant thalamic and cortical volume loss. In our preliminary study, including 50 MS pa...

May 27th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Patients who are discharged from isolation after recovering from COVID-19 and who again test positive for SARS-CoV-2 are unlikely to be infectious...

Nov 5th, 2019 - Comment Prevalence and Presentation Epstein-Barr virus is a ubiquitous γ-herpesvirus with tropism for B cells, affecting more than 90% of the adult population worldwide. In addition to infecting B cells, EBV is capable of infecting T and NK cells,.

Jul 17th, 2019 - "I feel like I've tried everything—why don't you just take the [expletive] thing out?" This was my first encounter with a request to treat fatigue with a thyroidectomy. The Patient Who 'Tried Everything' A 34-year-old woman with Hashimoto's thyroi...

Aug 30th, 2017 - Action Points Patients who have had mononucleosis due to infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) may be at increased risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). Note that the data support the hygiene hypothesis: that being born/spending your early childhood ...

May 9th, 2017 - Typical age of onset of chronic fatigue syndrome is 29-35 years, and the usual trigger is a stressor; these can include infection, such as flulike illness or infectious mononucleosis; surgery; pregnancy; or psychological stress. However, the condi...