Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
Symptoms include:
- Chills
Difficulty swallowing - Fever
- Herpes in the mouth (herpes labialis)
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Joint pain or other general symptoms - Painful swallowing
Signs and tests
- Culture of cells from the esophagus
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Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with or withoutbiopsy
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Herpes esophagitis Treatment
Review Date: 08/28/2009
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine,
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine,
Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD,
MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
