Small-bowel hemorrhage caused by cytomegalovirus vasculitis following fulminant hepatitis

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 954-960

  Omori, Kaku ^a   Hasegawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Ogawa, Miho ^a   Hisada, Shoko ^a   Kanai, Naoko ^a   Shibata, Noriyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Makio ^a   Takasaki, Ken ^a   Hayashi, Naoaki ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Fulminant hepatitis; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENTERITIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EXCISION; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; INTESTINE ULCER; JAUNDICE; JEJUNUM DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULITIS; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0036857511     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005350200160     Document Type: Article

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