CMV pneumonia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among allogeneic BMT recipients. To assess the frequency, timing, risk factors and response to therapy of CMV pneumonia among autologous ...

The incidence, treatment and outcome of CMV interstitial pneumonia (CMV-IP) were reviewed in 139 consecutive allogeneic BMT patients undergoing extended CMV antigenemia surveillance and two ...

The fifth Symposium on Infectious Disease in the Immunocompromised Host convened in Seattle last month. Experts and rising ...

Patient 2: A previously healthy 30-year-old man developed p. carinii pneumonia in April 1981 after a 5-month history of fever each day and of elevated liver-function tests, CMV viruria, and ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) can cause ... Taglietti F, Petrosillo N. Cytomegalovirus pneumonia in immunocompetent host: case report and literature review. J Clin Virol 2012;55:356-359. Crossref. PubMed.

Antiviral and Immunoglobulin Therapy for CMV in Liver Transplantation. ... CMV pneumonia, or invasive fungal infection in association with CMV disease), ...

Orlando- In a significant advance in improving the safety of donor stem cell transplants, a major clinical trial led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital ...

The typical patient with symptomatic CMV infection is older than 30 years of age, whereas the peak incidence for EBV infection occurs between 15 and 20 years of age. 4 In addition, the usual ...

New antiviral drug cuts cytomegalovirus infection, improves survival in patients undergoing donor stem cell ... Marty recounts. Of those, 20 to 30 percent contracted CMV pneumonia, and of those, ...

Under the direction of Boeckh, who heads the Infectious Disease Sciences Program and designed the present study, Duke set out to show that viral load — the amount of CMV in a milliliter of blood — can ...

The CMV complement-fixation titer in March 1981 was 8. Material from an esophageal biopsy was positive for CMV. Patient 4: A 29-year-old man developed P. carinii pneumonia in February 1981.