ALLMedicine™ Infectious Mononucleosis Center

Apr 26th, 2022 - Infectious mononucleosis - should we routinely assess liver function in acute presentation and follow up?|2022|Simpson L,Sutherland E,Wilkinson D,Saman R,Edafe O,|

Apr 12th, 2022 - 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...

Apr 11th, 2022 - Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) complicated by splenic infarction is very rare, and it is even rarer to develop splenic infarction after infectious mononucleosis (IM) as a result of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. Therefore, misdiagnosis or miss...

Apr 8th, 2022 - Infectious Mononucleosis Complicated With COVID-19.|2022|Min K,Lee JK,|

Mar 23rd, 2022 - 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...

Apr 12th, 2022 - 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...

Mar 23rd, 2022 - 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...

Feb 14th, 2022 - Worldwide, 95% of adults are infected with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). These infections may cause different diseases. In most cases, EBV infection is asymptomatic because of a highly effective host immune response. Some individuals develop infectiou...

Nov 19th, 2021 - Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is a lymphotropic herpes virus and the causative agent of infectious mononucleosis (IM). The course of EBV infection is determined by the virus load and an individuals' immune system state, which in turn is determined by t...

Nov 1st, 2021 - Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders (PTLD) are defined by the revised 2017 edition of the WHO Classification of Tumours of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues as "lymphoid or plasmacytic proliferations that develop as a consequence of im...

Mar 17th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. I'm Paul Auwaerter with Medscape Infectious Diseases, speaking from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. There have been two recent papers that have brought Epstein-Barr virus, otherw...

Sep 9th, 2021 - Introduction Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a herpes virus that commonly causes infectious mononucleosis (IM) and linked to different hematological conditions. Here we present a case of EBV-triggered Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) with pulmonary inv.

Aug 24th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The persistence of long-term symptoms in some individuals with COVID-19 illness has opened up a new line of research into the mechanisms underlyin...

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...