Pune: The doctor at Pune reported the case of Sporadis Cytomegalovirus (CMV) on those who had recovered from Covid-19.
The patients present abdominal pain and blood on the bench, around 20 to 30 days after their covid diagnosis.
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) affects all ages.
After getting the entry, it remains latent in the body, but can appear or reactivate to cause disease when the immune system weakens.
This is why infections are primarily seen in patients with solid organ transplants, blood cancer, HIV / AIDS and those who undergo chemotherapy or managed with high-dose steroid length.
Doctors have said that Covid-19, and medicines used to treat, also suppress the immunity of the patient, making them vulnerable to Furagal Opportunistic and viral infections such as mukormycosis and CMV.
Patients with CMV are currently far less than those who have mukormycosis.
Sir Ganga Ram Delhi Hospital reported five patients with CMV last week.
The doctor at Pune said the CMV case dripped into.
“I have diagnosed two post-covid patients with CMV in recent days.
They have complications such as pneumonitis (inflammation of lung tissue), colitis (intestinal inflammation), hepatitis (liver inflammation), viremia (the virus in the blood), “said Mahesh Lakhe’s infectious disease expert from Columbia Asia Hospital.
Lakhe said both were covid patients who had an increase in additional oxygen needs, bloody diarrhea and fever whose imaging studies showed interstitial patterns.
“That’s the reason why we test it for CMV,” he said.
The experts at Jehangir Hospital also detected three patients with CMV associated with Covid or post-covid last week.
Everything is in the bracket aged 35-50 years.
Jehangir’s infectious disease expert, Piyush Chaudhari said, “Before signing Covid, they are healthy and immunocompetent individuals.
Two of them have food and intestinal pipe ulcers and have experienced gastrointestinal bleeding.
The third patient with a nodules of lungs deteriorated (shortness of breath) and It is difficult to wean it from ventilation support.
He finally gave up.
Two are still undergoing treatment.
“CMV related covid, perhaps, associated with the impact of Covid-19 on T cell immunity, ranging from absolute lymphopenia (decreasing white blood cells) to disregulation of T cell immunity.
“Also, activation of excess default immunity in Covid, as observed in severe sepsis patients, their predisposition with CMV reactivation,” Chaudhari said.
Both SARS-COV-2 and CMV can affect the layers in blood vessels and blood platelets to worsen coagulopathy (bleeding disorders) and thrombosis (formation of lumps in blood vessels).
Thus, Covid with CMV increases the mortality of at least two to three times.
“Before the pandemic, we used to have around eight to 10 CMV patients per year, especially the recipients of solid organ transplants and some HIV-positive patients,” Chaudhary said.
Deenanath Mangeshkar (DMH) Hospital treats a 60-year-old woman diagnosed with post-covid CMV recovery.
He has other comorbid conditions.
“After the recovery of Covid, he experienced abdominal pain and fever.
He underwent a colonoscopy and was found to have CMV colitis.
We treat it with Ganciclovir, anti-CMV drug for about four weeks.
He recovered completely,” said the Hospital infectious disease.
Prakgar Paris Parikshit.
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