Adult Reye-like syndrome associated with serologic evidence of acute parvovirus B19 infection

Abstract

Reye's syndrome is an infrequently diagnosed medical condition affecting mainly children. The etiology, epidemiology and natural history of Reye's syndrome have been cloudily written in footnotes of medical books and exotic papers since the initial description in early 1950s. We report here a case of adult Reye's syndrome associated with serologic evidence of parvovirus B19 infection.

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“…As shown in Figure , the search using Web of Knowledge databases identified 998 publications, whereas PubMed database search identified 903 publications, with a combined search result of 1065 publications. A scrupulous analysis resulted in 89 eligible articles describing the history of 129 patients, published between the years 1970 and 2012, which were further evaluated.…”

Acute Viral Encephalitis/Encephalopathy in an Emergency Hospital in Japan: A Retrospective Study of 105 Cases in 2002 – 2011

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