Cytomegalovirus endocarditis. A case report and a review of the literature.
The authors describe the case of a 75-year-old man admitted to our intensive care unit due to coma and respiratory failure; the history revealed a chronic renal failure due to an ANCA+ arteritis; subsequently, he developed a thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura which was treated with plasma exchange. During his clinical course the patient developed polymicrobial and fungine sepsis and ultimately died. The autopsy demonstrated a severe cytomegalovirus endocarditis, which is extremely uncommon in non-immunodepressed patients as those receiving a solid-organ transplantation.
Berlot
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Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy. berlot@inwind.it
Bussani
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D000368:Aged; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male