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Maribavir for Cytomegalovirus Infection in High‐Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Case Series

IJU Case Reports
Background Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection remains a common complication after kidney transplantation, particularly among high‐risk donor‐seropositive/recipient‐seronegative (D+/R−) recipients.
Daiji Takamoto, Yu Shimada, Yuri Hasegawa, Takeaki Noguchi, Takashi Kawahara, Junichi Teranishi, Kazuhide Makiyama   +6 more
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Treatment of congenital cytomegalovirus infection [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics, 2023
Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of congenital infection worldwide, the most common nongenetic cause of sensorineural hearing loss in children, and a cause of neurodevelopmental disorders in the brain.
Gyu Hong Shim
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The Management of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection in an Era of Universal Newborn CMV Screening [PDF]

Rev Med Virol
ABSTRACT The most common infectious disease responsible for paediatric developmental disability is congenital infection with human cytomegalovirus (cCMV). Many serious sequelae are caused by cCMV, including microcephaly, intracranial calcifications, neuronal migration defects, seizure disorders, developmental delay, and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL)
Harrison E, Huskins W, Schleiss M.
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A double masked randomised 4-week, placebo-controlled study in the USA, Thailand and Taiwan to compare the efficacy of oral valganciclovir and topical 2% ganciclovir in the treatment of cytomegalovirus anterior uveitis: study protocol. [PDF]

, 2019
IntroductionCytomegalovirus (CMV) anterior uveitis is a recognised cause of anterior uveitis in immunocompetent patients and is preventable cause of vision loss.
Acharya, Nisha R, Doan, Thuy A, Gebreegziabher, Elisabeth A, Gonzales, John A, Joye, Ashlin S, Keenan, Jeremy D, Laovirojjanakul, Wipada, Lietman, Thomas M, Lin, Chang-Ping, Porco, Travis C, Rose-Nussbaumer, Jennifer, Seitzman, Gerami D, Somkijrungroj, Thanapong, Takhar, Jaskirat S   +13 more
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Alemtuzumab induction and tacrolimus monotherapy in pancreas transplantation: One- and two-year outcomes [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND. Alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) induction with tacrolimus monotherapy has been shown to provide effective immunosuppression for kidney, liver, lung, and small bowel transplantation.
Abu-Elmagd, Akhtar Khan, Amadeo Marcos, Amit Basu, Calne, Ciano, Deanna Blisard, Flechner, Gruessner, Hale, Henkie P. Tan, John J. Fung, Kaufmann, Kirk, Knechtle, Knechtle, Kusum Tom, Marcos, Marcos, McCurry, Ngoc L. Thai, Ron Shapiro, Shapiro, Shapiro, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Stuart, Thai, Thomas E. Starzl, Tryphonopoulos, Tzakis, Watson   +33 more
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Valganciclovir as Add-On to Standard Therapy in Secondary Glioblastoma

Microorganisms, 2020
Patients with glioblastoma have a very poor prognosis despite aggressive therapeutic strategies. Cytomegalovirus has been detected in >90% of glioblastoma tumors.
Giuseppe Stragliotto, Mattia Russel Pantalone, Afsar Rahbar, Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér   +3 more
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Variability in antifungal and antiviral use in hospitalized children [PDF]

, 2017
We analyzed antifungal and antiviral prescribing among high-risk children across freestanding children’s hospitals. Antifungal and antiviral days of therapy varied across hospitals.
Gerber, Jeffrey S, Goldman, Jennifer L, Hersh, Adam L, Kronman, Matthew P, Lee, Brian R, Newland, Jason G, Ross, Rachael K   +6 more
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Treating HIV-associated cytomegalovirus retinitis with oral valganciclovir and intra-ocular ganciclovir by primary HIV clinicians in southern Myanmar: a retrospective analysis of routinely collected data

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background Cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMVR) is an opportunistic infection in HIV-infected people. Intraocular or intravenous ganciclovir was gold standard for treatment; however, oral valganciclovir replaced this in high-income countries. Low- and middle-
Jillian Murray, Adelene Hilbig, Theint Thida Soe, Win Le Shwe Sin Ei, Kyi Pyar Soe, Iza Ciglenecki   +5 more
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Microcephaly and macrocephaly. A study on anthropometric and clinical data from 308 subjects [PDF]

, 2019
Head circumference is the auxological parameter that most correlates with developmental anomalies in childhood. Head circumference (HC) two standard deviations (SD) below or above the mean defines microcephaly and macrocephaly, respectively.
Corsello G., Mancuso G., Martorana C., Montante C., Notarbartolo V., Piro E., Schierz I. A. M., Vanella V.   +7 more
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Chronic Human Herpes Virus 8 Infection Successfully Treated With Valganciclovir

World Allergy Organization Journal, 2009
Background: A 57 year old Italian female with a 3 year history of constituitional symptoms with non-HIV Kaposi sarcoma was referred to the immunology clinic.
James J. Yun, MBBS, Veronica Preda, MBBS(Hons), BSc(Med), Brad Frankum, BMed(Hons), FRACP   +2 more
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