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CMV - gastroenteritis/colitis - Prevention

Alternative Names

Colitis - cytomegalovirus; Gastroenteritis - cytomegalovirus; Gastrointestinal CMV disease

Prevention:

There is a significant risk of CMV infection in people with no signs of the virus in their blood who receive an organ transplant from a CMV-positive donor. The antiviral drugs ganciclovir (Cytovene) and valganciclovir (Valcyte), taken by mouth before the transplant, can lower your chance of a new infection or reactivation of an old infection in such cases.

People with AIDS who are effectively treated with antiviral therapy are much less likely to get CMV infection.

Gastrointestinal anatomy

Stomach and stomach lining

Reviewed last on: 11/17/2008
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, CA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

References

Drew WL. Cytomegalovirus. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007: chap 399.

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