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Herpes zoster associated encephalitis in dialysis patients
W C Cheung1, K Y Yuen, C M Chang
1University Medical Unit, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam.
The Journal of Infection
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
Two patients on dialysis because of chronic renal failure who developed herpes zoster associated encephalitis are reported. Both developed overt encephalopathy despite treatment with oral acyclovir for the preceding herpes zoster eruption. The encephalopathy responded rapidly to intravenous acyclovir.