CMV retinitis
High ocular CMV copies and mismatched receipts may predict poor visual prognosis in CMV retinitis patients following allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
... The limitations of this study include its small scale and the inadequate immune assessment of the included patients. Only the CMV retinitis, a rare complication after allogeneic HSCT, was retrospectively ...
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Posterior segment manifestations in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients in rural population of central india
... Results: The mean age of patients ware 31.9±9.3 years, the ocular manifestations were more commonly found in the age group 25-35 years. 51 % were males and 49% were females. Most common mode of transmission was ...
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Antineurofilament and antiretinal antibodies in AIDS patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis.
... Sera obtained from AIDS patients with cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis before and after treatment with foscarnet, AIDS patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) retinopathy, AIDS p[r] ...
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Ocular Manifestations in HIV Positive and AIDS Patients in Nepal
... 32.03% of the cases had posterior segment lesions in our study, HIV retinopathy (23.3%) being the most com- mon followed by CMV retinitis (3.9%). Similar trend was seen in the study done by Awan et al. [22] ...
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Plasma cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA load predicts CMV disease and survival in AIDS patients
... of CMV disease and none had received CMV antiviral ther- ...of CMV retinitis on dilated eye ex- amination by an experienced ophthalmologist before entry into the ...clinical CMV disease ...
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Valganciclovir in the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis in HIV-infected patients
... diagnosed CMV retinitis; 80 of them received induction therapy with intravenous ganciclovir 5 mg/kg for three weeks and the remaining 80 received induction therapy with oral valganciclovir 900 mg twice ...
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Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA in plasma reflects quantity of CMV DNA present in leukocytes
... known CMV disease. CMV retinitis (n 5 22) was diagnosed ophthalmologically by the typical clinical appearance of ret- inal hemorrhage and ...with retinitis were 39 6 25 (mean 6 standard ...
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Prevalence and clinical management of cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS patients in shanghai, china
... of CMV viral load in blood was correlated to the severity of CMV retinitis in this ...of CMV viral load in blood, sometimes CMV in the blood does not rule out the possibility of a ...
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Study of 70 cases of posterior uveitis to evaluate the various etiologies and management.
... Clinical Diagnosis Idiopathic Toxoplasmosis retinochoroidits Toxocariasis retinochoroidits Serpiginious choridopathy CMV retinitis Tuberculosis retinochoroiditis Collagen Vascular diseas[r] ...
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Study to determine the frequency of ocular manifestations in HIV/AIDS patients
... Various literature gives incidence of CMV retinitis as high as 15-40%. But in this study group, CMV retinitis is reported in only 4% of total study group and 23.5% of those with posterior ...
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Long-term results of oral valganciclovir for treatment of anterior segment inflammation secondary to cytomegalovirus infection
... treat CMV anterior ...with CMV anterior ...Because CMV anterior uveitis is less vision- threatening compared with CMV retinitis, we only used oral valganciclovir to treat patients with ...
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Association of CMV genomic mutations with symptomatic infection and hearing loss in congenital CMV infection
... Urine specimens obtained from infants at one time point, the enrollment visit, were used for NGS. Samples were centrifuged at 1200 rpm, 4 °C, for 5 min; and DNA was extracted from the supernatant using the Qiagen Viral ...
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Comparison of Quantitative Cytomegalovirus (CMV) PCR in Plasma and CMV Antigenemia Assay: Clinical Utility of the Prototype AMPLICOR CMV MONITOR Test in Transplant Recipients
... of CMV DNA (1, 3, 7, 18, 22, 24, 28, 35, 36, ...detecting CMV DNA in patients that do not develop active CMV ...active CMV disease posttransplantation were found to have detectable CMV ...
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Monitoring of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Specific Cell Mediated Immunity in Heart Transplant Recipients: Clinical Utility of the QuantiFERON CMV Assay for Management of Posttransplant CMV Infection
... faster CMV-specific CMI reconsti- tution than the patients in the antiviral prophylaxis group, showing a higher proportion of positive QFN-CMV results at each time ...of CMV infection, which occurred ...
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Detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in granulocytes by polymerase chain reaction compared with the CMV antigen test
... University Hospital Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands To compare the sensitivity and suitability of detection of active cytomegalovirus CMV infection by using monoclonal antibodies again[r] ...
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Evaluation of New Quantitative Assays for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Cytomegalovirus Disease in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Positive Patients
... pellet, which were stored at ⫺80°C if they were not immediately processed. This assay is based on the hybridization of 43 different and specific oligonucleotide probes complementary to the glycoprotein B (gB) gene (major ...
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Comparison of PCR, Antigenemia Assay, and Rapid Blood Culture for Detection and Prevention of Cytomegalovirus Disease after Lung Transplantation
... high-performance CMV PCR kits (16) and semiautomated platforms is expected to increase the reproducibility of ...for CMV PCR offered by clinical labora- tory accreditation agencies, such as the College of ...
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Comparison of the Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Spot and CMV QuantiFERON Cell Mediated Immune Assays in CMV Seropositive and Seronegative Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women
... congenital CMV trans- mission, particularly when high maternal CMI responses are associated with low maternal CMV IgG avidity ...the CMV enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot (ELISPOT) and CMV ...
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The status of CMV as a human pathogen.
... All of the clinical findings in human allograft patients are consistent with these data so we have hypothesized elsewhere that CMV pneumonitis in allograft patients is an immunopathologi[r] ...
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Spot Assay but Not CMV QuantiFERON Assay Is a Novel Biomarker To Determine Risk of Congenital CMV Infection in Pregnant Women
... after CMV infection. Of the women experiencing primary CMV infection, 16/57 (28%) transmitted the infection to the fetus, 19/57 (33%) had episodes of viremia, and 43/57 (75%) had ...of CMV viremia ...
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