A Rare Complication of Chronic Active Epstein-Barr Virus Infection

Ryeonshi Kang, MD; Toshikazu D. Tanaka, MD, PhD; Yoji Ogasawara, MD, PhD; Michihiro Yoshimura, MD, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (May 2020)

A Rare Complication of Chronic Active Epstein-Barr Virus Infection

Ryeonshi Kang, MD,
Toshikazu D. Tanaka, MD, PhD,
Yoji Ogasawara, MD, PhD,
Michihiro Yoshimura, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Ryeonshi Kang, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Toshikazu D. Tanaka, MD, PhD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Address for correspondence: Dr. Toshikazu D. Tanaka, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8 Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan.
Yoji Ogasawara, MD, PhD: Division of Clinical Oncology/Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Michihiro Yoshimura, MD, PhD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 5
pp. 756 – 759

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A 42-year-old man with a 6-month-long fever was found to have chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection complicated by aneurysmal coronary arteries with other arteries. In adult patients with this infection, coronary aneurysms are rare but are a poor prognostic factor. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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