Esophageal Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex virus co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and review of literature

Herpes simplex virus and Cytomegalovirus co-infection has been reported to occur in a variety of sites in immunocompromised patients. To our knowledge, few cases of such co-infection have been reported to occur in the esophagus. We report a case of a 60-year-old woman who was maintained on immunosup...

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Autores principales: Bannoura, Sami, Barada, Kassem, Sinno, Sara, Boulos, Fouad, Chakhachiro, Zaher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7519373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33005566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00925
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author Bannoura, Sami
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description Herpes simplex virus and Cytomegalovirus co-infection has been reported to occur in a variety of sites in immunocompromised patients. To our knowledge, few cases of such co-infection have been reported to occur in the esophagus. We report a case of a 60-year-old woman who was maintained on immunosuppressive therapy for a presumed diagnosis of pemphigus vulgaris, who presented with odynophagia. Investigations revealed ulcerative esophagitis caused by both HSV and CMV. The patient was treated with valganciclovir with full recovery. We also present the results of various studies on patients with similar presentation particularly those caused by HSV and CMV co-infection.
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spelling pubmed-75193732020-09-30 Esophageal Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex virus co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and review of literature Bannoura, Sami Barada, Kassem Sinno, Sara Boulos, Fouad Chakhachiro, Zaher IDCases Case Report Herpes simplex virus and Cytomegalovirus co-infection has been reported to occur in a variety of sites in immunocompromised patients. To our knowledge, few cases of such co-infection have been reported to occur in the esophagus. We report a case of a 60-year-old woman who was maintained on immunosuppressive therapy for a presumed diagnosis of pemphigus vulgaris, who presented with odynophagia. Investigations revealed ulcerative esophagitis caused by both HSV and CMV. The patient was treated with valganciclovir with full recovery. We also present the results of various studies on patients with similar presentation particularly those caused by HSV and CMV co-infection. Elsevier 2020-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7519373/ /pubmed/33005566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00925 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Barada, Kassem
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Boulos, Fouad
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Esophageal Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex virus co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and review of literature
title Esophageal Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex virus co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and review of literature
title_full Esophageal Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex virus co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Esophageal Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex virus co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Esophageal Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex virus co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and review of literature
title_short Esophageal Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex virus co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and review of literature
title_sort esophageal cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex virus co-infection in an immunocompromised patient: case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7519373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33005566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00925
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