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Low prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in a cardiovascular intensive care unit

Active cytomegalovirus infection is not uncommon in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients. We conducted a preliminary observational study to determine the prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in cardiovascular surgical patients. One hundred patients admitted to the intensive care un...

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Autores principales: Ishioka, Haruhiko, Sanui, Masamitsu, Tsutsumi, Yusuke, Yanase, Fumitaka, Shiotsuka, Junji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25520828
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-0492-2-12
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author Ishioka, Haruhiko
Sanui, Masamitsu
Tsutsumi, Yusuke
Yanase, Fumitaka
Shiotsuka, Junji
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description Active cytomegalovirus infection is not uncommon in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients. We conducted a preliminary observational study to determine the prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in cardiovascular surgical patients. One hundred patients admitted to the intensive care unit following cardiovascular surgery were enrolled between January 2010 and May 2010. Four patients (4%) were positive for serum pp65 antigens, though cytomegalovirus-positive serology (immunoglobulin G, IgG) was found in 98 patients (98%) including those four patients. Active cardiac diseases and their operative procedures including cardiopulmonary bypass may not be significant risk factors for active cytomegalovirus infection unless systemic derangements are also present.
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spelling pubmed-42675592014-12-17 Low prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in a cardiovascular intensive care unit Ishioka, Haruhiko Sanui, Masamitsu Tsutsumi, Yusuke Yanase, Fumitaka Shiotsuka, Junji J Intensive Care Letter to the Editor Active cytomegalovirus infection is not uncommon in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients. We conducted a preliminary observational study to determine the prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in cardiovascular surgical patients. One hundred patients admitted to the intensive care unit following cardiovascular surgery were enrolled between January 2010 and May 2010. Four patients (4%) were positive for serum pp65 antigens, though cytomegalovirus-positive serology (immunoglobulin G, IgG) was found in 98 patients (98%) including those four patients. Active cardiac diseases and their operative procedures including cardiopulmonary bypass may not be significant risk factors for active cytomegalovirus infection unless systemic derangements are also present. BioMed Central 2014-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4267559/ /pubmed/25520828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-0492-2-12 Text en © Ishioka et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ishioka, Haruhiko
Sanui, Masamitsu
Tsutsumi, Yusuke
Yanase, Fumitaka
Shiotsuka, Junji
Low prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in a cardiovascular intensive care unit
title Low prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in a cardiovascular intensive care unit
title_full Low prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in a cardiovascular intensive care unit
title_fullStr Low prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in a cardiovascular intensive care unit
title_full_unstemmed Low prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in a cardiovascular intensive care unit
title_short Low prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in a cardiovascular intensive care unit
title_sort low prevalence of active cytomegalovirus infection in a cardiovascular intensive care unit
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25520828
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-0492-2-12
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