Cytomegalovirus infection causing pseudomembranous colitis

Franco, J.; Massey, B.T.; Komorowski, R.

American Journal of Gastroenterology 89(12): 2246-2248

1994


ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9270
PMID: 7977254
Document Number: 438340
A liver transplant patient with previous episodes of diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis due to Clostridium difficile subsequently developed pseudomembranous colitis due to cytomegalovirus. The patient responded to ganciclovir. Cytomegalovirus infection should be considered in the differential of pseudomembranous colitis in immunocompromised patients, particularly when C. difficile toxin assays or cultures are negative.

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