Passage of intestinal casts—An unusual presentation of Cytomegalovirus enterocolitis

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the leading opportunistic pathogens affecting immunocompromised patients. We report a case of histologically-confirmed extensive CMV enterocolitis in a young woman after receiving rituximab and tocilizumab for the treatment of autoimmune encephalitis. During the antiv...

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Autores principales: Limthanetkul, Nisakorn, Sakonlaya, Dussadee, Siramolpiwat, Sith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8371233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01246
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description Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the leading opportunistic pathogens affecting immunocompromised patients. We report a case of histologically-confirmed extensive CMV enterocolitis in a young woman after receiving rituximab and tocilizumab for the treatment of autoimmune encephalitis. During the antiviral treatment, she spontaneously excreted small intestinal casts per oral and colonic casts per anus. Even though intestinal cast is an extremely unusual condition, CMV infection should be included in the differential diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-83712332021-08-23 Passage of intestinal casts—An unusual presentation of Cytomegalovirus enterocolitis Limthanetkul, Nisakorn Sakonlaya, Dussadee Siramolpiwat, Sith IDCases Case Report Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the leading opportunistic pathogens affecting immunocompromised patients. We report a case of histologically-confirmed extensive CMV enterocolitis in a young woman after receiving rituximab and tocilizumab for the treatment of autoimmune encephalitis. During the antiviral treatment, she spontaneously excreted small intestinal casts per oral and colonic casts per anus. Even though intestinal cast is an extremely unusual condition, CMV infection should be included in the differential diagnosis. Elsevier 2021-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8371233/ /pubmed/34430206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01246 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. https://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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Passage of intestinal casts—An unusual presentation of Cytomegalovirus enterocolitis
title Passage of intestinal casts—An unusual presentation of Cytomegalovirus enterocolitis
title_full Passage of intestinal casts—An unusual presentation of Cytomegalovirus enterocolitis
title_fullStr Passage of intestinal casts—An unusual presentation of Cytomegalovirus enterocolitis
title_full_unstemmed Passage of intestinal casts—An unusual presentation of Cytomegalovirus enterocolitis
title_short Passage of intestinal casts—An unusual presentation of Cytomegalovirus enterocolitis
title_sort passage of intestinal casts—an unusual presentation of cytomegalovirus enterocolitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8371233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01246
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