Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is of great importance to obstetrician-gynecologists because maternal infection is relatively common and can result in severe injury to the fetus. The greatest risk to the fetus occurs when the mother develops a primary CMV infection in the first trimester. Forty to 50% of infants delivered to mothers with primary CMV infections will have congenital infections. O...

BACKGROUND Neonatal cholestasis syndrome with an intra or extrahepatic origin has been associated to viral infections. The participation of the cytomegalovirus in the etiopathogenesis of neonatal hepatitis has been already known for some time, but only recently there have been indications that this virus may be one of the possible etiological factors for extrahepatic biliary atresia. AIMS To ...

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a member of the Herpesviridae family, is an opportunistic infection with a typically benign course in the healthy host but has a more ominous course in the immunocompromised population. CMV infection commonly affects the visceral organs, particularly the respiratory and the gastrointestinal tract. CMV cutaneous lesions are rare and can be easily missed. We present a case ...

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy remains the major cause of long-term failure of heart transplantation. Cytomegalovirus infection was identified as a major risk factor for cardiac allograft vasculopathy development in pioneering studies, even though the possibility that the virus is only an innocent bystander was not completely excluded. Only recently, convincing clinical and experimental evidenc...

In a prospective study of cytomegalovirus infection in 1,040 pregnant women in London 319 (42%) of the white Englishwomen but only 28 (10%) of the immigrant Asian women were without antibodies at the onset of pregnancy. Out of 254 susceptible white women and 16 susceptible Asian women 8 (3%) and 3 (16%) respectively experienced primary infection during the course of pregnancy. The overall incid...

INTRODUCTION Cytomegalovirus is the most common cause of congenital infections in humans and it produces considerable morbidity in newborns. AIMS The present study reviews current concepts on epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, future strategies and prognosis of children with congenital cytomegalovirus infection. RESULTS Congenital cytomegalovirus infection can be s...

Non-traumatic small bowel perforation is rare in adults but carries a high morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis is made on clinical suspicion, and the most common causes in developing countries are infectious diseases, being cytomegalovirus infection in immunocompromised patients the main etiology. We describe a patient with a recently diagnosed advanced stage HIV infection and an intestinal ...