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Mirkovic R, Werch J, South MA, Benyesh-Melnick M. Incidence of cytomegaloviremia in blood-bank donors and in infants with congenital cytomegalic inclusion disease. Infect Immun 2010; 3:45-50. [PMID: 16557945 PMCID: PMC416105 DOI: 10.1128/iai.3.1.45-50.1971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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During a 15-month period, cytomegalovirus (CMV) isolations were attempted from leukocytes derived from 290 healthy blood-bank donors. The major proportion of the specimens were tested 2 to 5 hr after donation. However, CMV was not recovered from any of the specimens examined. At the time of donation, 75% of donors had CMV complement-fixing antibodies demonstrable in titers of 10 to >/=320. The age of the study group ranged from 17 to 57 years. During the same time period and with the use of identical isolation techniques, postnatal cytomegaloviremia was demonstrated in four infants with cytomegalic inclusion disease. Failure to detect cytomegaloviremia in 290 normal blood donors questions its occurrence outside pathological conditions. These results do not support the concept that CMV infection, concurrent with post-transfusion mononucleosis syndrome, is transmitted through the blood donor's leukocytes.
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- R Mirkovic
- Department of Virology and Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, and Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77025
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SUMMARYSeven hundred and sixty-eight patients were seen and tested at frequent intervals after transfusion of whole blood. Eight patients were judged to have developed icteric or anicteric post-transfusion viral hepatitis, an incidence of 1%. Five were icteric and four of these were hepatitis B antigen (HB Ag) positive; two of these four died. One of the fatal cases and one non-fatal HB Ag positive case had received HB Ag positive blood. Two other antigen-positive patients had received blood or plasma or both which had not been tested for antigen.Thirty-five patients showed conspicuous or sustained elevations of alanine transaminase without clinical features of hepatitis.Four were positive for HB Ag but had not received antigen positive blood.Two who had received antigen positive blood remained antigen negative, but one developed hepatitis B antibody (HB Ab).Two other patients were also transfused with plasma.Five had serological evidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection accompanying the enzyme changes.One patient who had received HB Ag positive blood remained antigen-negative and showed no abnormalities.Five patients who became HB Ag positive, although they had been given antigen-negative blood, remained clinically and biochemically well.Cytomegalovirus primary infection or reactivation occurred in another 32 patients; five had isolated, transient enzyme rises, one other was associated with a drug-induced focal liver necrosis and 26 showed no enzyme changes. Epstein–Barr virus infections, one of which was associated with a transient upset of enzyme activity, were detected in five patients. There were no cases of post-perfusion syndrome.
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Endresen K, Gjesdal K, Orstavik I, Sivertssen E, Reikvam A, Ulstrup JC, Aalen OO. Primary cytomegalovirus infection following open heart surgery. ACTA MEDICA SCANDINAVICA 2009; 218:423-8. [PMID: 3002147 DOI: 10.1111/j.0954-6820.1985.tb08868.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Among 674 patients undergoing open heart surgery in 1981-82, 86 (13%) were cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibody-negative when tested by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay prior to operation. At follow-up, 54 (67%) of 80 patients restudied had seroconverted after the operation, and 35 of the 54 seroconvertants had been ill with fever and elevated liver enzymes. Among the latter 35 patients, 26 demonstrated a significant rise in CMV antibody titre, most often detected in the third week following the onset of illness. The older patients were more susceptible to illness and seroconversion, and there was a positive correlation between age and the number of blood units given. Thus, at least one third of the seronegative patients developed symptomatic CMV illness after open heart surgery. This is a much higher incidence than earlier reported.
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Roback JD, Conlan M, Drew WL, Ljungman P, Nichols WG, Preiksaitis JK. The Role of Photochemical Treatment With Amotosalen and UV-A Light in the Prevention of Transfusion-Transmitted Cytomegalovirus Infections. Transfus Med Rev 2006; 20:45-56. [PMID: 16373187 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2005.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Primary cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is usually asymptomatic in immunocompetent patients but can cause serious life-threatening complications in immunocompromised CMV-seronegative patients, including patients receiving a bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplant, recipients of some solid-organ transplants, and low-birth-weight neonates. Current recommendations for preventing transfusion-transmitted CMV (TT-CMV) infection in these patients include exclusive use of CMV-seronegative and/or leukoreduced cellular blood components (red blood cells and platelets) for transfusion. However, breakthrough cases of TT-CMV still occur. Despite improving the safety of blood components, testing remains a reactive approach to blood safety. In contrast, pathogen inactivation technologies offer a proactive approach with the potential to further improve blood safety. To reduce the risks associated with platelet transfusions, a photochemical treatment (PCT) process using a combination of the psoralen amotosalen HCl and long-wavelength UV light has been developed and introduced into clinical practice in Europe. PCT has been shown to result in greater than 5.9-log reductions in infectivity of human CMV in platelet concentrates and to prevent the transfusion transmission of murine CMV in a mouse transfusion model. Thus, PCT pathogen inactivation may play a role in further reducing the incidence of TT-CMV infection in patients who are at risk for serious CMV disease. Because PCT is a technology that targets nucleic acids, it also offers a proactive process for the inactivation of a broad range of viral, bacterial, and protozoan pathogens in addition to CMV.
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- John D Roback
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Preiksaitis JK. The cytomegalovirus-"safe" blood product: is leukoreduction equivalent to antibody screening? Transfus Med Rev 2000; 14:112-36. [PMID: 10782497 DOI: 10.1016/s0887-7963(00)80003-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- J K Preiksaitis
- Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Ohto H, Ujiie N, Hirai K. The above letter was sent to Ohto et al., who offer the following reply. Transfusion 2000. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2000.4003387.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Lee PI, Chang MH, Hwu WL, Kao CL, Lee CY. Transfusion-acquired cytomegalovirus infection in children in a hyperendemic area. J Med Virol 1992; 36:49-53. [PMID: 1315370 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.1890360110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Thirty-nine children without previous cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection received blood transfusion in the National Taiwan University Hospital. The overall transfusion-acquired CMV infection rate was 36% (14/39). Donor CMV seropositive rate was 70%. None of the nine children who had received seronegative blood became infected, in contrast to 14 of the 21 children (67%) who had received seropositive blood (P = 0.002). Another significant risk factor associated with CMV infection was the use of fresh blood: 13 of 15 (87%) with fresh seropositive blood were infected, in contrast to one of six (17%) with "old" seropositive blood (P = 0.01). Most of the fresh blood was used within 24 hours. This blood processing method was shown to account for the extremely high rate of CMV infection in those who had received fresh seropositive blood. The results indicated that the incidence of CMV infection can be reduced by avoiding the use of fresh blood, especially blood less than 24 hours old. For such a population in Taiwan with high prevalence of positive CMV antibody, this approach was more applicable than screening donor blood for CMV antibody.
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- P I Lee
- Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China
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Andreu G, Marinière AM, Fretz C, Emile JF, Bierling P, Brossard Y, Girard M, Gluckman E, Huart JJ, Janot C. [Post-transfusional cytomegalovirus infections: incidence and methods of prevention. CMV group of SNTS]. REVUE FRANCAISE DE TRANSFUSION ET D'HEMOBIOLOGIE : BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE NATIONALE DE TRANSFUSION SANGUINE 1991; 34:213-32. [PMID: 1648357 DOI: 10.1016/s1140-4639(05)80067-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Vander Salm TJ. Cytomegalovirus: more dangerous to the cardiac surgical patient than we thought? Chest 1990; 97:3. [PMID: 2153066 DOI: 10.1378/chest.97.1.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Domart Y, Trouillet JL, Fagon JY, Chastre J, Brun-Vezinet F, Gibert C. Incidence and morbidity of cytomegaloviral infection in patients with mediastinitis following cardiac surgery. Chest 1990; 97:18-22. [PMID: 2153065 DOI: 10.1378/chest.97.1.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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To determine the incidence and morbidity of infections with CMV associated with mediastinitis after conventional cardiac surgery, 115 consecutive adult patients with mediastinitis were evaluated with viral cultures of blood and urine. Shedding of CMV was seen in 29 patients (25 percent) within a mean period of 37 +/- 22 days after cardiopulmonary bypass. Viremia was documented in 79 percent (23) of these 29 patients. Acute renal failure and enzymatic abnormalities (AST and LDH) were significantly more common in patients with virologically proven infection with CMV (p less than 0.05). In patients who survived the initial period of bacterial infection, major differences in their clinical course were observed according to their virologic status. After the 15th day of hospitalization following the débridement, the persistence of local infection was more frequent (p less than 0.05) and the mortality was higher (p less than 0.01) in CMV-infected patients. Moreover, the mean duration of hospitalization in the ICU for survivors was 69 +/- 36 days in viral shedders, compared with 48 +/- 27 days in nonshedders (p less than 0.05). Infection with CMV in mediastinitis occurs frequently and is associated with persistence of local infection, prolonged hospitalization, and increased late mortality.
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- Y Domart
- Service de Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France
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- S P Adler
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond
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Baldwin S, Stagno S, Whitley R. Transfusion-associated viral infections. CURRENT PROBLEMS IN PEDIATRICS 1987; 17:391-443. [PMID: 2824131 DOI: 10.1016/0045-9380(87)90024-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Viral infections are a frequent occurrence following transfusion of blood products. While generally benign, these infections are capable of causing significant morbidity and mortality. Therefore, it is prudent to follow several general approaches diligently to reduce the risks of these infections in patients undergoing transfusions of blood products. These suggested measures include the following: 1. Prescribe and administer blood and blood products only when absolutely needed. 2. Use volunteer blood donors only. 3. Avoid use of pooled blood products when possible. 4. Use only blood and blood products that have been appropriately tested for HBsAg and HIV. 5. Use ALT determinations to screen blood products and eliminate those with high level. 6. Avoid the use of clotting-factor concentrates but, if necessary, use only those which have been heat-treated. 7. Limit use of leukocyte transfusion. 8. Use only CMV seronegative blood and blood products or frozen deglycerolized red cells in patients at high risk for posttransfusion CMV infection.
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- S Baldwin
- Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Medicine
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Wreghitt T, Hughes M, Calne R. A retrospective study of viral and Toxoplasma gondii infections in 54 liver transplant recipients in Cambridge. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0888-0786(87)90028-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a herpes virus which can give rise to primary infections, reactivated infections, or reinfections in humans. Seroepidemiologic studies have shown CMV infection to be worldwide with the highest antibody prevalences detected in Third World countries; however, significant regional variations can be seen within a given country. Antibody prevalence varies directly with age and inversely according to socioeconomic status. Numerous prospective studies of blood transfusion recipients carried out since 1966 have shown marked differences in infection rates but relatively little associated disease. Infection rates were highest in seronegative recipients given large amounts of fresh blood. Recently published reports have shown substantially lower infection rates than earlier studies, a change likely to be due to the current practice of transfusing fewer units of older blood. CMV has not been found to play a significant role in the etiology of posttransfusion hepatitis. CMV infections have been found to be an important source of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Several studies of transfused, premature infants have shown significant differences in infection rates and disease expression. Seronegative low-birth-weight infants receiving blood from seropositive donors are at greatest risk. Blood from CMV-seronegative donors substantially lowers the risk of infection. Receiving a kidney or heart from a CMV-seropositive donor appears to be a more salient risk factor than blood transfusion in renal and cardiac transplant patients who are also more likely to have symptomatic CMV infections. Leukocyte transfusions have been found to be a significant source of CMV infection and disease in bone marrow transplant patients.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Infants with very low birthweights (less than 1250g) are immunocompromised and have immature hematopoietic systems. They require frequent blood transfusions and have an increased susceptibility to infection. These very low birthweight infants who lack passively acquired antibody against CMV, acquire transfusion-associated CMV infections with a frequency of approximately 30%. These infections are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The source of these postnatally acquired CMV infections are seropositive blood donors. These infections can be prevented by appropriate donor selection and/or blood processing. Recent but limited data suggests that all infants (regardless of birthweight or the presence of antibody against CMV) should receive CMV seronegative blood products if they are likely to receive multiple transfusions from multiple donors.
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Preiksaitis JK, Grumet FC, Smith WK, Merigan TC. Transfusion-acquired cytomegalovirus infection in cardiac surgery patients. J Med Virol 1985; 15:283-90. [PMID: 2984327 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.1890150309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The incidence of transfusion-acquired primary cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection was studied in 483 cardiac surgery patients. Ninety-six patients (20%) were found to lack antibody to CMV [CMV Ab(-)] as measured by radioimmunoassay. Sixty-eight CMV Ab(-) were followed by viral culture and/or serology from eight weeks to one year after transfusion. Transfusion requirements in CMV Ab(-) patients were as follows: whole blood/packed red blood cells, mean 4.7 +/- 2.6 units; platelets (20 patients), 6.9 +/- 3.8 units; fresh frozen plasma (25 patients), mean 3.3 +/- 1.6 units. Forty-nine percent of 235 donor units tested had antibody to CMV. One donor unit (0.4%) had CMV-specific IgM. This was not associated with CMV infection in the recipient. One patient (1.5%) demonstrated evidence of seroconversion to CMV during the follow-up period. This is significantly less than reported in previously published studies (P less than .01). Serological methods used, the age of the transfused blood, the immune status of the transfusion recipient, and the administration of passive antibody in fresh frozen plasma are factors that may be responsible for the low incidence observed.
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Reikvam A, Orstavik I, Endresen K, Bae E. Identification of patients at risk of symptomatic cytomegalovirus infection after open-heart surgery. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY 1985; 19:173-6. [PMID: 2996127 DOI: 10.3109/14017438509102714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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In a prospective study, 58 consecutive patients submitted to open-heart surgery were followed from the preoperative period up to 3 months postoperatively with regard to clinical status, cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibodies and signs of enzymatic liver damage. Forty-eight patients (83%) were seropositive prior to operation. Of the ten (17%) preoperatively seronegative patients, five became CMV-seropositive during follow-up. Of the 48 initially seropositive patients, nine showed heightened CMV-antibody titers after the operation. Significant symptomatic CMV illness with protracted fever developed in four patients, all from the group of five with seroconversion. All five of these patients had enzymatic liver damage. The incidence of symptomatic CMV infection after open-heart surgery in CMV-negative patients probably is higher than previously assumed, while CMV-positive patients seem to have complete protection against CMV morbidity.
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Velasco N, Catto GR, Edward N, Engeset J, Moffat MA. The effect of the dosage of steroids on the incidence of cytomegalovirus infections in renal transplant recipients. J Infect 1984; 9:69-78. [PMID: 6094670 DOI: 10.1016/s0163-4453(84)94576-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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In a retrospective survey of 92 cadaver renal transplant recipients, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections were detected in 23 of 34 (68 per cent) patients treated with high doses of steroids but in only 27 of 58 (47 per cent) patients given low doses. Pretransplant blood transfusions were associated with both an improvement in one-year allograft survival-rates (P less than 0.05) and an increase in the incidence of CMV infections. When standardised for any transfusion effect, the incidence of CMV infections was significantly higher in those patients given high doses of steroids (P less than 0.05). In the same group of patients, moreover, CMV infections were associated with a statistically significant increase in the renal allograft survival-rate (P = 0.03).
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13 The Significance of Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis, Cytomegalovirus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Transfusion Practice. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0308-2261(18)30043-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Baumgartner JD, Glauser MP, Burgo-Black AL, Black RD, Pyndiah N, Chiolero R. Severe cytomegalovirus infection in multiply transfused, splenectomized, trauma patients. Lancet 1982; 2:63-6. [PMID: 6123807 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(82)91688-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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During a 2-year period 5 previously healthy young men who had undergone splenectomy and received multiple transfusions for trauma had severe cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Their illness was characterised by a long period of high fever, severe interstitial pneumonitis with dyspnoea and hypoxaemia, and an unusually high lymphocytosis (12 000-26 000 cells/microliter) with numerous atypical forms. The presumptive diagnosis was based on the patients' seroconversion and viral excretion, on the clinical and haematological findings which were typical of severe CMV infection, and on the absence of other infective organisms. In 1 case widespread CMV pneumonitis was confirmed at necropsy. These observations raise the possibility that splenectomy increases the severity and modifies the pattern of CMV infection, since during the same period no other case of severe CMV infection was observed among a large number of patients who had received multiple transfusions but had not undergone splenectomy.
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A male patient, aged 31 years, with a cytomegalovirus (CMV) myocarditis is described, who showed a high IgM antibody titer for cytomegalovirus infection of 1:1,024 and a rise of the titer for complement-fixing antibody from 1:< 16 to 1:256. CMV could be isolated from the urine. Investigations for other etiological factors were negative, and we assumed a connection between the cytomegalovirus infection and the myocardial involvement.
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We have established a new transfusion program for an intensive care nursery which is based on crossmatching several infants to the same unit of type O Rh0(D) negative packed red blood cells, dividing the unit into quadpacks, and allowing multiple entry into each quadpack over a 24-hour period in the nursery. With this procedure, each donor unit can be used to provide multiple transfusions to four infants over a four-day period. Follow-up of transfusion recipients revealed that 20% had evidence of previous or ongoing CMB infection at 10 months of age, a prevalence comparable to that for transfused infants in other studies. We found no evidence for transmission of HB infection and a low risk of allosensitization to red cell and lymphocyte antigens.
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Browning JD, More IA, Boyd JF. Adult pulmonary cytomegalic inclusion disease: report of a case. J Clin Pathol 1980; 33:11-8. [PMID: 6244337 PMCID: PMC1145974 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.33.1.11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A case is presented of pulmonary cytomegalic inclusion disease in adult. The condition was only diagnosed post mortem. A detailed description of the inclusions and inclusion-bearing cells is given. Histochemical observations which reveal an outer and inner zone to the intranuclear inclusion body are confirmed. Electron microscopy shows the viral basis of the infection. The morphology of the virus particles is compatible with a herpesvirus infection.
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Salo M. Effect of anaesthesia and open-heart surgery on lymphocyte responses to phytohaemagglutinin and concanavalin A. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 1978; 22:471-9. [PMID: 569417 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1978.tb01325.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Engle MA, Gay WA, Kaminsky ME, Zabriskie JB, Senterfit LB. The postpericardiotomy syndrome then and now. Curr Probl Cardiol 1978; 3:1-40. [PMID: 122753 DOI: 10.1016/0146-2806(78)90021-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The postpericardiotomy syndrome is a febrile illness with pericardial and pleural reaction that either persists or appears beyond the 1st postoperative week. We believe that it begins in the 1st week after intrapericardial cardiac surgery, and that clinical signs of illness correlate with appearance of AHA and with significant rise in titer to AVA. Our present working hypothesis is that myocardial damage with bleeding into the pericardial sac at the time of surgery combines with concurrently acquired or reactivated viral illness to set the stage for the syndrome. The immune response is triggered by viral invasion of traumatized myocardium and an immune response is mounted, not against autologous myocardium per se but against the neo-antigen, the virus-infected myocardium. The illness is self-limited. It sometimes recurs but it seems to leave no sequelae other than the bad memory of a painful postoperative complication that prolonged hospitalization and delayed the realization of the full benefits of that heart operation.
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- M A Engle
- Cornell University Medical College, New York
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About 0.5% of infants are infected in utero with cytomegalovirus (CMV). As many as 20% become mentally retarded and a further substantial proportion suffer lesser degrees of brain damage. The need for a vaccine is greater than in the case of rubella. A live, tissue culture-adapted strain of CMV has been shown to produce neutralizing antibody in volunteers without significant side effects or detectable virus excretion. The problems of developing such a vaccine for use in man, namely, attenuation, antigenic differences among virus strains, reactivation of latent infection and oncogenicity, are briefly discussed.
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Pass MA, Johnson JD, Schulman IA, Grumet CF, Hafleigh EB, Malachowski NC, Sunshine P. Evaluation of a walking-donor blood transfusion program in an intensive care nursery. J Pediatr 1976; 89:646-51. [PMID: 182947 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(76)80410-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A prospective study was carried out to identify the immediate and long-range advantages and disadvantages of a walking-donor transfusion program for an intensive care newborn nursery. The effect of heparin on coagulation of blood was evaluated and found to be minimal. There was no evidence of transmission of HBSAg. The prevalence of CMV infection at the time of follow-up was higher in infants who had received blood from donors seropositive for CMV than in infants who had been transfused from seronegative donors. In our experience, a walking-donor program has been a safe and effective method for the provision of small transfusions of blood to sick neonates.
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Engle MA, Zabriskie JB, Senterfit LB, Tay DJ, Ebert PA. Immunologic and virologic studies in the postpericardiotomy syndrome. J Pediatr 1975; 87:1103-8. [PMID: 1102646 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(75)80122-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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A prospective, triple-blind study was undertaken to determine whether antiheart antibody or a rise in titer to a virus occurred in patients after intrapericardial surgery and, if so, whether either was related to clinical evidence of the postpericardiotomy syndrome. In 257 patients, AHA in high titer appeared in 62 (24%), all of whom had the syndrome. None of the 102 patients with no AHA had the syndrome. In 137 subjects, a rise in titer to one or more viral agents occurred in 21 of 31 (68%) of those with AHA and PPS. This study suggests that an immunologic response and viral illness are related to PPS.
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Complications after heart valve replacement remain a substantial source of morbidity and mortality despite continuing advances in surgical care and prosthetic design. Infectious endocarditis occurs in about 4 percent of patients and may appear early (within 60 days) or late after operation. Endocarditis of early onset is commonly due to staphylococcal, fungal or gram-negative organisms and is fatal in 70 percent or more of cases. Infection of late onset is more often of streptococcal origin and the mortality rate is lower, about 35 percent. With either type, prompt recognition, vigorous and appropriate antimicrobial therapy and early consideration of surgical intervention are crucial. The postperfusion and postpericardiotomy syndromes are relatively common and relatively benign syndromes associated with postoperative fever. Their recognition is important to prevent confusion with endocarditis or sepsis and thus to reassure the patient and physician. Treatment is primarily symptomatic. Intravascular hemolysis occurs with most prosthetic heart valves but is more common with certain prostheses and with paraprosthetic valve regurgitation, with significant hemolytic anemia in 5 to 15 percent. Oral iron replacement therapy is effective in the majority of patients, but occasionally blood transfusion or reoperation for leak around the prosthesis is necessary. Prosthesis dysfunction due to thrombus may be recognized clinically by recurrence of heart failure, syncope, cardiomegaly and altered prosthetic valve sounds or new murmurs. Hemodynamic studies verify the diagnosis, and prompt reoperation is indicated for this potentially lethal problem. Systemic embolization has decreased markedly with the introduction of cloth-covered prostheses and is frequently related to erratic or ineffective anticoagulant therapy. We continue to recommend anticoagulant therapy for all patients with prosthetic heart valves unless there is a major contraindication.
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Spencer ES. Clinical aspects of cytomegalovirus infection in kidney-graft recipients. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1974; 6:315-23. [PMID: 4375300 DOI: 10.3109/inf.1974.6.issue-4.04] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Numazaki Y, Sekiguchi H, Tateda A, Kikuchi K. A serologic study on cytomegalovirus infection associated with blood transfusion in Japanese. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY 1974; 18:91-3. [PMID: 4368354 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1974.tb00748.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Le Thymus humain, réservoir de virus? Med Mal Infect 1973. [DOI: 10.1016/s0399-077x(73)80008-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Lang DJ. Cytomegalovirus infections in organ transplantation and post transfusion. An hypothesis. ARCHIV FUR DIE GESAMTE VIRUSFORSCHUNG 1972; 37:365-77. [PMID: 4339109 DOI: 10.1007/bf01241460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Caul EO, Dickinson VA, Roome AP, Mott MG, Stevenson PA. Cytomegalovirus infections in leukaemic children. Int J Cancer 1972; 10:213-20. [PMID: 4350511 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910100127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Porter R, Crombie AL, Gardner PS, Uldall RP. Incidence of ocular complications in patients undergoing renal transplantation. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1972; 3:133-6. [PMID: 4339112 PMCID: PMC1788625 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.3.5819.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The eyes of 39 patients who had received allogenic renal transplants were examined for signs of disease. Nine (23%) had early posterior subcapsular cataracts, two (5%) developed acute cytomegalovirus retinitis, and one developed steroid-induced glaucoma. The lesions which were found were all attributable to the immunosuppressive drug therapy. Thirty-five (87%) had detectable complement-fixing antibodies to cytomegalovirus.
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Luthardt T. [Transfer of cytomegalovirus during exchange transfusion in newborn infants]. BLUT 1971; 23:341-6. [PMID: 4109284 DOI: 10.1007/bf01632796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Sera were examined from 50 patients on the renal transplant unit, Cambridge, for antibody against cytomegalovirus by complement fixation and by immunofluorescence for IgG and IgM antibodies.The incidence of antibody on admission was 84% with a possible further 8% so that nearly all had been infected at some time by CMV.43 (86%) patients showed evidence of active infection after admission, 39 by serology and four only from the examination of post-mortem material.Twenty-one patients produced IgM antibody and production was prolonged for years in patients that survived. Antibody production was related both to transplantation and admission to hospital.The evidence indicated that primary CMV infections were rare, that IgM antibody production was the result of active infection and that this could be attributed to reactivation without the need to invoke re-infection as the source although this type of patient is both susceptible and exposed to re-infection.
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Ferchal F, Salles M, Perol Y, Toulier M. La virémie à virus de la maladie des inclusions cytomégaliques au cours des syndromes mononucléosiques post-transfusionnels. Med Mal Infect 1971. [DOI: 10.1016/s0399-077x(71)80036-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Mummery RV, Bradley JM, Jeffries DJ. Microbiological monitoring of patients in hepatic failure with particular reference to extracorporeal porcine liver perfusion. Lancet 1971; 2:60-4. [PMID: 4104444 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(71)92042-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Prince AM, Szmuness W, Millian SJ, David DS. A serologic study of cytomegalovirus infections associated with blood transfusions. N Engl J Med 1971; 284:1125-31. [PMID: 4324227 DOI: 10.1056/nejm197105202842004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Caul EO, Mott MG, Clarke SK, Perham TG, Wilson RS. Cytomegalovirus infections after open heart surgery. A prospective study. Lancet 1971; 1:777-80. [PMID: 4101275 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(71)91216-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Perham TG, Caul EO, Conway PJ, Mott MG. Cytomegalovirus infection in blood donors--a prospective study. Br J Haematol 1971; 20:307-20. [PMID: 4324060 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1971.tb07041.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Stevens DA, Levine PH, Lee SK, Sonley MJ, Waggoner DE. Concurrent infectious mononucleosisand acute leukemia. Case reports. Review of theliterature and serologic studies with the herpes-type virus (EB virus). Am J Med 1971; 50:208-17. [PMID: 4322791 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(71)90150-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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