Aciclovir-induced acute kidney injury in patients with ‘suspected viral encephalitis’ encountered on a liaison neurology service

Petya Bogdanova-Mihaylova,David Burke,John P. O’Dwyer,David Bradley,Jennifer Williams,Simon Cronin,Shane Smyth,Raymond P. Murphy,Sinéad M. Murphy,Catherine Wall,Dominick J. H. McCabe

Aciclovir-induced acute kidney injury in patients with ‘suspected viral encephalitis’ encountered on a liaison neurology service

2018

Petya Bogdanova-Mihaylova
David Burke
John P. O’Dwyer
David Bradley
Jennifer Williams
Simon Cronin
Shane Smyth
Raymond P. Murphy
Sinéad M. Murphy
Catherine Wall
Dominick J. H. McCabe

Background Patients with ‘suspected viral encephalitis’ are frequently empirically treated with intravenous aciclovir. Increasing urea and creatinine are ‘common’, but rapidly progressive renal failure is reported to be ‘very rare’.

Keywords:

Creatinine
Surgery
Progressive renal failure
Diabetes mellitus
Acute kidney injury
Aciclovir
Viral encephalitis
Medicine
Neurology
Internal medicine
Nephropathy
Nephrology
Renal function

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