Clinical outcome and the role of antivirals in congenital cytomegalovirus infection

SA Ross, D Kimberlin - Antiviral research, 2021 - Elsevier
… of use of valacyclovir for those pregnant women in whom timing of CMV infection can be
adequately assessed, especially given its safety profile relative to ganciclovir or valganciclovir. …

Evaluation of a cytomegalovirus prophylaxis protocol in cytomegalovirus-IgG positive renal transplant recipients (R+)

A Uslu, A Ari, C Simsek, AI Olgut, M Karatas… - Transplantation …, 2019 - Elsevier
… During the last 2 decades of using ganciclovir or valganciclovir prophylaxis, CMV disease
has been reduced to less than 15%, following solid organ transplants, applied to seropositive …

How I treat resistant cytomegalovirus infection in hematopoietic cell transplantation recipients

F El Chaer, DP Shah… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2016 - ashpublications.org
… to intravenous ganciclovir at … CMV disease with CMV enterocolitis, which was confirmed by
histopathologic analysis. After 2 weeks of treatment with ganciclovir, the patient’s serum CMV

The addition of adjunctive letermovir to valganciclovir for refractory cytomegalovirus viremia in kidney transplant recipients

MR Jorgenson, JL Descourouez, N Garg… - … Infectious Disease, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… While a case series exists describing letermovir in combination with both foscarnet and
high dose IV ganciclovir for resistant/refractory CMV in lung and hematopoetic stem cell …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy of Valganciclovir versus Ganciclovir in treatment of symptomatic cytomegalovirus infection in infants: An open-label randomized controlled trial

K Fatema, MM Rahman, S Akhtar, J Shefa - Journal of the International …, 2019 - jicna.org
… the following criteria: positive CMV DNA PCR plus evidence … CMV disease even after
neonatal period in infancy, chorioretinitis and critically ill preterm infants with life-threatening CMV

Evaluating the Safety of Maribavir for the Treatment of Cytomegalovirus

RG Gandhi, CN Kotton - Therapeutics and Clinical Risk …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… Citation3 The oral prodrug valganciclovir and intravenous ganciclovir are the most common
antiviral agents used for prevention and treatment. Although generally well tolerated, side …

Cytomegalovirus disease is associated with higher all‐cause mortality after lung transplantation despite extended antiviral prophylaxis

E Beam, T Lesnick, W Kremers… - Clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… who developed breakthrough CMV disease while on appropriately dosed oral valganciclovir
prophylaxis, one was due to genotypically proven ganciclovir-resistant CMV, another was a …

Very late‐onset cytomegalovirus disease with ganciclovir resistance> 15 years following renal transplantation

SF Khan, MK Yong, MA Slavin… - … Infectious Disease, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… in disease epidemiology with the introduction of antiviral prophylaxis, with CMV disease
We describe two cases of very late-onset CMV disease where first disease occurred 15 and 18 …

[HTML][HTML] Valganciclovir—ganciclovir use and systematic therapeutic drug monitoring. An invitation to antiviral stewardship

A Galar, M Valerio, P Catalán, X García-González… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
… [11] also found variable CMV DNAemia clearance in patients with appropriate plasma
levels with VGCV therapy for CMV disease in donor-positive/recipient-negative SOT recipients. …

Cytomegalovirus retinitis in primary immune deficiency disease

JJ Ngai, KL Chong… - Case reports in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… children with CMV disease in this case. IV ganciclovir, IV foscarnet, IV cidofovir and oral
valganciclovir are choices of antiviral available for CMV retinitis in both adults and children. …