Cytomegalovirus

CMV Diseases

• CMV esophagitis
• CMV colitis
• CMV pneumonia
• CMV retinitis
• CMV neurologic disease

Background

• Herpesvirus
• 50% of Americans seropositive, almost all asymptomatic
• Immunosuppressed most likely to have symptoms

Management

• Gancyclovir first line
• foscarnet, cidofovir

Authors:

Neil Young, Ross Donaldson