CYTOMEGALOVIRUS-INDUCED ALVEOLAR HEMORRHAGE IN PATIENTS WITH AIDS - ANEW CLINICAL ENTITY

Authors
HERRY I CADRANEL J ANTOINE M MEHARZI J MICHELSON S PARROT A ROZENBAUM W MAYAUD C
Citation
I. Herry et al., CYTOMEGALOVIRUS-INDUCED ALVEOLAR HEMORRHAGE IN PATIENTS WITH AIDS - ANEW CLINICAL ENTITY, Clinical infectious diseases, 22(4), 1996, pp. 616-620
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,Immunology,"Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Clinical infectious diseases → ACNP
ISSN journal
10584838
Volume
22
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
616 - 620
Database
ISI
SICI code
1058-4838(1996)22:4<616:CAHIPW>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
We report five cases of alveolar hemorrhage associated with intravascu lar hemolysis in patients with AIDS. Cytomegalovirus was the only path ogen recovered from the lungs of these patients. There was evidence of multivisceral spread of the virus in all patients, and al had viremia . All had clinical, biological, and pathological features of pulmonary vasculitis, and the conditions of four improved with specific anti-cy tomegalovirus therapy.