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Wilson CMV in Immunocompetent Host
Wilson CMV in Immunocompetent Host
Wilson CMV in Immunocompetent Host
Hosts
Internal Medicine
Morning Report August 2009
Lindsay A. Wilson
A Herpes Virus:
COLITIS:
• Diarrhea, fever, and abdominal pain are the common
presenting symptoms.
• Can be bloody diarrhea (about half of the time) and mimic
ischemic colitis.
• Guillain-Barré syndrome:
CMV-related GBS are generally younger and experience more
prominent sensory deficits, respiratory insufficiency, and cranial
nerve impairments.
• Encephalitis:
Symptoms can include: motor deficits (localized weakness,
paraplegia), sensory abnormalities (numbness, hypoaesthesia,
paraesthesia, dysaesthesia, anaesthesia), disorientation,
confusion.
• Transverse myelitis
Pulm:
Wash hands!!
Uptodate.