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- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
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Cytomegalovirus esophagitis
Symptoms
Symptoms include:
- Difficult and painful swallowing
- Low-grade fever
- Mouth sores (oral lesions)
Signs and tests
- Blood and
urine culture - CMV antigenemia
Cold agglutinins - Culture of cells obtained from an esophageal brushing
-
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with or without abiopsy
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CMV esophagitis Treatment
Review Date: 08/28/2009
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine,
Division of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M.,
Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
