Öztürk-Kaygusuz Türkkan, Sağmak-Tartar Ayşe, Akbulut Ayhan
Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Fırat University School of Medicine, Elazığ, Turkey.
Infect Dis Clin Microbiol. 2022 Sep 26;4(3):210-213. doi: 10.36519/idcm.2022.117. eCollection 2022 Sep.
Herpes simplex virus is a rare cause of hepatitis in immunosuppressed and immunocompetent individuals. It can cause clinical pictures in patients ranging from an asymptomatic course to fatal acute fulminant hepatitis. Early diagnosis and treatment may be delayed if it is not suspected because of the patients' nonspecific clinic. This study presents a case of isolated HSV-2 hepatitis in a patient with a history of cancer chemotherapy and a recent diagnosis of COVID-19 who received steroid therapy.
单纯疱疹病毒是免疫抑制和免疫功能正常个体肝炎的罕见病因。它可导致患者出现从无症状病程到致命性急性暴发性肝炎等一系列临床表现。如果因患者临床表现不具特异性而未怀疑该病,早期诊断和治疗可能会延迟。本研究报告了一例孤立性HSV-2肝炎病例,患者有癌症化疗史,近期诊断为COVID-19并接受了类固醇治疗。