Surgical treatment of a foscavir-resistant atypical Cytomegalovirus pneumonia in an allogeneic stem cell transplant recipient

Haematologica. 2008 May;93(5):e39-41. doi: 10.3324/haematol.12199.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antiviral Agents / pharmacology*
  • Cytomegalovirus Infections / surgery*
  • Cytomegalovirus Infections / therapy
  • DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / genetics
  • Drug Resistance, Viral*
  • Female
  • Foscarnet / pharmacology*
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / complications
  • Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Pneumonia, Viral / surgery*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / therapy
  • Pneumonia, Viral / virology
  • Polymorphism, Genetic
  • Stem Cell Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Transplantation, Homologous / methods
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Viral Load
  • Viral Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • Antiviral Agents
  • UL54 protein, Human herpesvirus 5
  • Viral Proteins
  • Foscarnet
  • DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase