SARS CoV-2 may lead to the activation of persistent herpesviruses in heart tissue.
Stanford WGS study: Widespread integration and reactivation of HHV-6B and HHV-7 in lymphoblastoid cells immortalized with EBV
EBV infected B cells may represent a site of HHV-6 latency.
Parvovirus B19 and HHV-6 in biopsies of South African patients with acute myocarditis
Parvovirus B19 was the most common virus found, followed by EBV and HHV-6.
Coronary artery spasm often occurs in myocarditis cases with biopsy-proven HHV-6 and parvovirus B19 infection
Both viruses were associated with large vessel spasm, but parvovirus B19 was also associated with microvascular spasm.
Evidence for viral myocarditis in 2.3% of infant sudden death cases
Enteroviruses and parvovirus B19 were found more frequently than HHV-6.
Fatal myocarditis from HHV-6 in immunocompetent adult suspected of COVID-19
Case report does not distinguish HHV-6A from HHV-6B nor possible role of virus in other organ pathology.
Persistence and reactivation of parvovirus B19 and HHV-6B in the myocardium of children with dilated cardiomyopathy
Parvovirus B19 and HHV-6B were detected more often than enterovirus or adenovirus, the pathogens typically suspected in pediatric heart disease.
High rate of HHV-6 end-organ disease and mortality in pediatric transplant patients
Stanford investigators found that high levels of HHV-6 viremia following allogeneic stem cell transplants were associated end organ disease and greater non-relapse mortality.
Review of HHV-6 induced inflammatory cardiomyopathy in immunocompetent children
Although only a small number of pediatric cases have been reported in literature, the authors conclude that evidence suggests HHV-6 should be considered as a causative agent of inflammatory cardiomyopathy, particularly in young children (under 3 years of age) who might be experiencing a primary infection.
Superinfection of HHV-6A in ciHHV6A patients with recurrent cardiac disease: a full genome analysis
A group led by Ursula Gompels from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, did next generation sequencing on three ciHHV6A cardiac patients and found superinfections of HHV-6A in two of the three. They characterized the first full genome sequence of ciHHV-6A and demonstrated the inherited ciHHV6 genome was similar but distinct from known exogenous (community acquired) strains of HHV-6A .
Fatal HHV-6 pediatric myocarditis following immunosuppression
A case report published by a group at the University of Minnesota details two cases of fatal myocarditis associated with HHV-6 in two immunosuppressed children.
Stanford uses non-invasive new assay to detect occult infections including HHV-6 after lung transplantion
Researchers from Stanford University successfully used circulating cell-free DNA to identify infections in lung transplants that can often be found only with a more invasive transbronchial biopsy. This hypothesis free approach led to find HHV-6 & 7 at high levels in patients with infections, even though these viruses are not generally considered lung pathogens.
HHV-6 myocarditis, pericarditis following transplantation
A hematology group in Australia reported a case of biopsy-proven HHV-6 myocarditis post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). he post-mortem exam confirmed dilated cardiomyopathy and focal changes consistent with viral myocarditis and cardiac tissue was positive for HHV-6 DNA by nested and quantitative PCR. Separately, A Japanese group reported a worman who developed pericarditis with over 10,000 copies/ml of HHV-6 DNA in the pericardial fluid, after a cord blood transplant.
HHV-6, enterovirus and parvovirus B-19 DNA found in the blood of immunocompetent infants with myocarditis
80% of infants with myocarditis were positive for a cardiotropic virus compared to less than 4% of healthy controls, according to a multicenter study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis. This was a far higher rate than in older children.
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