Toxic megacolon associated with cytomegalovirus infection in a patient with steroid-naïve ulcerative colitis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 2739-2743

  Inoue, Ken ^a,b   Wakabayashi, Naoki ^c   Fukumoto, Kohei ^d   Yamada, Shinya ^e   Bito, Nobukatsu ^f   Yoshida, Naohisa ^b   Katada, Kazuhiro ^b   Uchiyama, Kazuhiko ^b   Ishikawa, Takeshi ^b   Handa, Osamu ^b   Takagi, Tomohisa ^b   Konishi, Hideyuki ^b   Yagi, Nobuaki ^b   Kokura, Satoshi ^b   Kishimoto, Mitsuo ^b   Yanagisawa, Akio ^b   Naito, Yuji ^b  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OTSU MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Nara City Hospital   (Japan)

^e Japan   (Japan)

^f Ujitakeda Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Steroid na ve; Toxic megacolon; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATIGUE; FEVER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; SIGMOID; TOXIC MEGACOLON; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84867830696     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.8145     Document Type: Article

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