title: Cytomegalovirus gastritis.
abstract: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been increasingly recognized as an important common pathogen in an immunocompromised state. The colon and stomach are the most common sites of its gastrointestinal infection. Symptoms of CMV gastritis are usually nonspecific and include epigastric pain, fever, nausea and bleeding. Endoscopic features are quite variable and include macroscopically normal mucosa, diffuse erythema, nodules, pseudotumors, erosions and ulcers. The bioptic detection of intranuclear inclusions is the hallmark of CMV infection. Most gastrointestinal CMV infection responds well to ganciclovir. We present endoscopic and histopathological features of CMV gastritis in a 71 year old woman receiving long-term prednisolone for pemphigus vulgaris.
authors.affiliation: Akira Hokama, Jiro Fujita, Department of Infectious, Respiratory, and Digestive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0125, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hokama
authors.forename: Kiyohito
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Taira
authors.forename: Yu-Ichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Nagisa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kinjo
authors.forename: Fukunori
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kinjo
authors.forename: Kenzo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Jiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fujita