Clinical case of curing a generalized adenovirus infection on the background of graft versus host reaction in a child after bone marrow transplantation from a haploidentical donor

Adenovirus infection is one of the causes of transplant-associated mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Fulminant liver failure with adenovirus infection is a diagnostic and therapeutic problem due to its aggressive clinical course and extremely poor prognosis, while modern methods of treating adenovirus infection are based on the use of virostatic drugs and virus-specific lymphocytes and are associated with severe side effects. The article presents a rare clinical case of elimination of disseminated adenoviral infection with fulminantly developing liver failure in a patient after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from a haploidentical donor.

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