Fatal lymphoproliferation and acute monocytic leukemia-like disease following infectious mononucleosis in the elderly

Hodgkin's disease following infectious mononucleosis.

Acute Monocytic Leukemia Masquerading Behçet's Disease-Like Illness at Onset in an Elderly Female

A previously healthy 74-year-old Japanese female was hospitalized with fever and high C-reactive protein. She developed palatal herpangina-like aphthous ulcers, localized intestinal wall thickening, terminal ileum ulcers, and an erythematous acneiform rash; thus Behçet's disease-like illness was suspected. Significant peripheral blood acute monocytosis developed during her hospitalization and a...

Infectious mononucleosis: in vitro evidence for limited lymphoproliferation.

Fatal airway obstruction in infectious mononucleosis.

A 20 year old man was brought to the casualty department having collapsed at home. The ambulance crew reported that he had suffered a cardiac arrest and since then had had no spontaneous respiration. He was being hand ventilated on arrival at hospital. On examination there was a good cardiac output but no spontaneous-movements and both pupils were fixed and dilated. Examination of the mouth sho...

The molecular characterization of fatal infectious mononucleosis.

We describe a retrospective study of 4 cases of sporadic fatal infectious mononucleosis (IM), 1 case of fatal IM, and 1 case of sporadic severe IM. Patients were 26 months to 17 years old; 3 were male. Five died of complications of IM. All 5 of these patients had the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) present in examined tissue specimens; EBV was monoclonal in 3 patients and biclonal in 1. EBV clonality ...