ACUTE GASTRIC-MUCOSAL LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH CYTOMEGALOVIRUS-INFECTION IN A NONIMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST

A 75-year-old woman with epigastric pain and tarry stool was admitted to our hospital, where upper gastrointestinal endoscopic study reveale d multiple gastric ulcers. The endoscopic biopsy specimens obtained on the seventh hospital day disclosed a few typical intranuclear cytomeg alovirus inclusions. Cytomegalovirus-DNA was detected using polymerase chain reaction in a biopsy specimen. No immunologic abnormalities wer e demonstrated by any laboratory tests, While only a few cases of cyto megalovirus-associated gastric ulcer in non-immunocompromised hosts ha ve been reported, this entity may be more frequently detected when car eful histological examination is performed in the active stage rather than postponed until after healing of the ulcer.