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Massive Alimentary Tract Bleeding due to Cytomegalovirus Infection in an Elderly Patient
In recent years, cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been recognized as an important common pathogen in immunocompromized patients. This is due to the increasing number of immunosuppressive medications, intensive cancer chemotherapy use, recurrent transplantations, progressively aging population, and the high...
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PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178269/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276331 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2014.5512 |
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author | Koc, Bora Bircan, Huseyin Yuce Altaner, Semsi Cinar, Ozlem Ozcelik, Umit Yavuz, Alpaslan Kemik, Ozgur |
author_facet | Koc, Bora Bircan, Huseyin Yuce Altaner, Semsi Cinar, Ozlem Ozcelik, Umit Yavuz, Alpaslan Kemik, Ozgur |
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description | In recent years, cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been recognized as an important common pathogen in immunocompromized patients. This is due to the increasing number of immunosuppressive medications, intensive cancer chemotherapy use, recurrent transplantations, progressively aging population, and the higher number of human immunodeficiency virus infections. Cytomegalovirus infection especially interests the gastrointestinal tract, anywhere, from the mouth to the anus. Namely, the most commonly affected area is the colon, followed by duodenum, stomach, esophagus and small intestine. The most frequent manifestations of CMV colitis are: diarrhea, fever, gastrointestinal bleeding and abdominal pain. We report here the case of an 82-year-old woman, who was treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma; she was admitted to the emergency department for abdominal pain and diffuse arthralgia, following massive upper- and lower- gastrointestinal bleeding, due to duodenal and colonic ulcers related to CMV infection. |
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spelling | pubmed-41782692014-09-30 Massive Alimentary Tract Bleeding due to Cytomegalovirus Infection in an Elderly Patient Koc, Bora Bircan, Huseyin Yuce Altaner, Semsi Cinar, Ozlem Ozcelik, Umit Yavuz, Alpaslan Kemik, Ozgur Infect Dis Rep Case Report In recent years, cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been recognized as an important common pathogen in immunocompromized patients. This is due to the increasing number of immunosuppressive medications, intensive cancer chemotherapy use, recurrent transplantations, progressively aging population, and the higher number of human immunodeficiency virus infections. Cytomegalovirus infection especially interests the gastrointestinal tract, anywhere, from the mouth to the anus. Namely, the most commonly affected area is the colon, followed by duodenum, stomach, esophagus and small intestine. The most frequent manifestations of CMV colitis are: diarrhea, fever, gastrointestinal bleeding and abdominal pain. We report here the case of an 82-year-old woman, who was treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma; she was admitted to the emergency department for abdominal pain and diffuse arthralgia, following massive upper- and lower- gastrointestinal bleeding, due to duodenal and colonic ulcers related to CMV infection. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4178269/ /pubmed/25276331 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2014.5512 Text en ©Copyright B. Koc et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Koc, Bora Bircan, Huseyin Yuce Altaner, Semsi Cinar, Ozlem Ozcelik, Umit Yavuz, Alpaslan Kemik, Ozgur Massive Alimentary Tract Bleeding due to Cytomegalovirus Infection in an Elderly Patient |
title | Massive Alimentary Tract Bleeding due to Cytomegalovirus Infection in an Elderly Patient |
title_full | Massive Alimentary Tract Bleeding due to Cytomegalovirus Infection in an Elderly Patient |
title_fullStr | Massive Alimentary Tract Bleeding due to Cytomegalovirus Infection in an Elderly Patient |
title_full_unstemmed | Massive Alimentary Tract Bleeding due to Cytomegalovirus Infection in an Elderly Patient |
title_short | Massive Alimentary Tract Bleeding due to Cytomegalovirus Infection in an Elderly Patient |
title_sort | massive alimentary tract bleeding due to cytomegalovirus infection in an elderly patient |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178269/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276331 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2014.5512 |
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