OGILVIES-SYNDROME FROM DISSEMINATED VARICELLA-ZOSTER INFECTION AND INFARCTED CELIAC GANGLIA

Authors
NOMDEDEU JF NOMDEDEU J MARTINO R BORDES R PORTORREAL R SUREDA A DOMINGOALBOS A RUTLLANT M SOLER J
Citation
Jf. Nomdedeu et al., OGILVIES-SYNDROME FROM DISSEMINATED VARICELLA-ZOSTER INFECTION AND INFARCTED CELIAC GANGLIA, Journal of clinical gastroenterology, 20(2), 1995, pp. 157-159
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Journal title
Journal of clinical gastroenterology → ACNP
ISSN journal
01920790
Volume
20
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
157 - 159
Database
ISI
SICI code
0192-0790(1995)20:2<157:OFDVIA>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
We report a patient who had refractory Hodgkin's disease and who recei ved an autologous bone marrow transplantation and 8 months later devel oped abdominal pain associated with acute colonic dilation. The course of the patient was rapidly fatal due to a lobar pneumonia. Autopsy re vealed signs of disseminated herpesvirus infection with marked hemorrh agic infarction of celiac sympathetic ganglia. This finding supports t he hypothesis that denervation caused by virus reactivation and second ary hemorrhage is a main mechanism of acute colonic pseudoobstruction.