TY - JOUR
TI - Acute Epstein-Barr virus infection in two elderly individuals
AU - Dourakis, SP
AU - Alexopoulou, A
AU - Stamoulis, N
AU - Foutris, A and
AU - Pandelidaki, H
AU - Archimandritis, AJ
JO - Age and Ageing
PY - 2006
VL - 35
TODO - 2
SP - 196-198
PB - Oxford University Press
SN - 0002-0729, 1468-2834
TODO - 10.1093/ageing/afj021
TODO - acute EBV infection; elderly individuals; cold agglutinin haemolytic
anaemia; elderly
TODO - Most individuals acquire Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in young
age. Because of uncommon presentation and misdiagnosis, clinical
manifestations are less well described in older age. We present two
cases of elderly patients with predominant symptoms attributed to cold
agglutinin haemolytic anaemia due to acute EBV infection without fever,
lymphadenopathy, pharyngitis or splenomegaly. We conclude that
misleading clinical manifestations are frequent in older individuals and
may lead to inappropriate diagnostic invasive procedures.
ER -