Acute Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage due to Epstein-Barr Virus Colitis

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a member of the herpesvirus family that is associated with various disease manifestations, including EBV-associated colitis. There are few case reports describing hemorrhage associated with EBV colitis. We report a 61-year-old woman with acute gastrointestinal bleeding du...

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Autores principales: Denicola, Richard P., Coben, Robert, Katz, Leo, McCue, Peter A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31832465
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000238
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author Denicola, Richard P.
Coben, Robert
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description Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a member of the herpesvirus family that is associated with various disease manifestations, including EBV-associated colitis. There are few case reports describing hemorrhage associated with EBV colitis. We report a 61-year-old woman with acute gastrointestinal bleeding due to EBV colitis after initiation of methylprednisolone and enoxaparin for spinal cord infarction. To our knowledge, there are only a few case reports of hemorrhagic EBV colitis. Perhaps we need to have a higher suspicion for EBV in cases of colitis associated with hemorrhage even in relatively immunocompetent patients.
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spelling pubmed-68555442019-12-12 Acute Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage due to Epstein-Barr Virus Colitis Denicola, Richard P. Coben, Robert Katz, Leo McCue, Peter A. ACG Case Rep J Case Report Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a member of the herpesvirus family that is associated with various disease manifestations, including EBV-associated colitis. There are few case reports describing hemorrhage associated with EBV colitis. We report a 61-year-old woman with acute gastrointestinal bleeding due to EBV colitis after initiation of methylprednisolone and enoxaparin for spinal cord infarction. To our knowledge, there are only a few case reports of hemorrhagic EBV colitis. Perhaps we need to have a higher suspicion for EBV in cases of colitis associated with hemorrhage even in relatively immunocompetent patients. Wolters Kluwer 2019-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6855544/ /pubmed/31832465 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000238 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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