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Query: UMLS:C0019829 (Hodgkin's disease)
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Acyclovir has become the drug of choice for prevention of visceral dissemination of Varicella-zoster virus infections in immunocompromised individuals. This article describes a 6-year-old girl taking cytotoxic therapy and radiotherapy for treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma who developed cutaneous varicella infection. Despite the early administration of acyclovir a fatal varicella pneumonia occurred and she died on the 4th day of hospitalization. Since the resistance is inducible, the increase of unresponsiveness to acyclovir in immunocompromised hosts with varicella infection is a potential risk that can cause to increase in fatalities in these patients.
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PMID:[Fatal varicella pneumonia unresponsive to acyclovir therapy in a child with a malignancy]. 152 47

A 50 year old patient with non-diagnosed HIV-infection at onset of his illness developed impairment of vision and temporary double vision combined with severe hemianopsia. With normal fundus and suspicious Herpes simplex iritis therapy with Acyclovir was started. Primarily the patient showed a good response to the therapy and loss of vision could be prevented. After 4 weeks CMV-retinitis developed. In spite of Gancyclovir therapy manifestation of total loss of vision after 6 weeks. Autopsy demonstrated signs of simultaneous a CMV-infection of the retina and a herpes simplex-infection of the optic nerve combined with a Non-Hodgkin-Lymphoma of the optic tract.
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PMID:[Sudden blindness in an AIDS patient. Simultaneous infection with cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex viruses and development of malignant non-Hodgkin lymphoma]. 165 79