Cryptogenic colitis due to occult cytomegalovirus infection.
Frontline Gastroenterol
; 2(1): 57-62, 2011 Jan.
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| ID: mdl-28839583
ABSTRACT
Colitis secondary to cytomegalovirus infection is well recognised and usually straightforward to diagnose. Here two cases are reported in whom all initial investigations failed to demonstrate the presence of virus, with potential adverse consequences for its treatment. A case is made for empirical antiviral therapy despite negative investigations if clinical suspicion is high.
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