← brief for 2026-09-04 · Transplant & xeno

HHV-8 Infection in Solid-Organ Transplant-Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations and Management.

Key takeaways

A review of HHV-8, a herpes virus that can cause cancers and severe whole-body inflammation in people who have received a transplanted organ, kidneys included. Anti-rejection drugs hold the immune system down, which gives the virus room to cause disease, and cases are often spotted late. The article pulls together what is known about who is at risk and how it is managed. It is a summary of past work, so it reports no new results.

Who did this work

Chittrakarn S (Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand.) · Koomanachai P (Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.) · Sutthipool K (Division of Infectious and Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.) · Ogawa L (Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.) · Schaenman JM (Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.)

Source

Paper · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-09-01
https://doi.org/10.1002/rmv.70193