C3-C4 Shingles Post Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation

    September 2014 in “ Archives of disease in childhood ”
    Siobhan Connor, Mairead O'Brien, Alan D. Irvine, Aengus O'Marcaigh, Owen Smith
    TLDR A 12-year-old boy had severe shingles and skin damage after a stem-cell transplant.
    A 12-year-old boy developed rapidly spreading, severely pruritic C3-C4 shingles three months after undergoing a matched unrelated haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) for relapsed acute myeloid leukaemia. Despite early treatment with intravenous aciclovir, he experienced full C3-C4 dermatome skin erosion to the dermis and secondary hair loss.
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