Dynamics of cytomegalovirus replication during preemptive therapy with oral ganciclovir

RR Razonable, H Van Cruijsen… - … infectious diseases, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… oral ganciclovir diminished the incidence of CMV disease but, as evidenced in this study,
did not completely eliminate the risk for developing CMV disease, especially among CMV D + /…

Prevention and treatment of cytomegalovirus disease in heart transplant patients

RH Rubin - The Journal of heart and lung transplantation, 2000 - Elsevier
… By administering intravenous ganciclovir during the course … of CMV disease is brought back
to baseline; if oral ganciclovir is … of the intravenous therapy, essentially all CMV disease is …

The clinical use of various blood compartments for cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA quantitation in transplant recipients with CMV disease

RR Razonable, RA Brown, J Wilson, C Groettum… - …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
… in the CMV DNA level after the initiation of intravenous ganciclovir treatment. … CMV DNA
levels in PBMC at the time of CMV disease diagnosis that declined after intravenous ganciclovir

EFFICACY AND COST EFFECTIVENESS OF ORAL GANCICLOVIR IN THE PREVENTION OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS DISEASE AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION1 …

R Speich, R Thurnheer, A Gaspert, W Weder… - …, 1999 - journals.lww.com
… Whereas almost all CMV-seropositive recipients will develop CMVCMV disease, primarily
CMV pneumonia (5,11) . Although treatment of established CMV disease with ganciclovir

[HTML][HTML] A controlled trial of valganciclovir as induction therapy for cytomegalovirus retinitis

DF Martin, J Sierra-Madero, S Walmsley… - … England Journal of …, 2002 - Mass Medical Soc
… We compared the effects of oral valganciclovir with those of intravenous ganciclovir as
induction therapy for newly diagnosed cytomegalovirus retinitis in 160 patients with the acquired …

Comparison of intravenous ganciclovir and cytomegalovirus hyperimmune globulin pre-emptive treatment in cytomegalovirus-positive heart transplant recipients

B Vrtovec, CD Thomas, R Radovancevic… - The Journal of heart and …, 2004 - Elsevier
… Accordingly, our results indicate that pre-emptive use of CMVIG is highly effective in
preventing CMV disease in CMV-seropositive transplant recipients. The absence of CMV disease

Gastrointestinal cytomegalovirus disease in the immunocompromised patient

AL Baroco, EC Oldfield - Current gastroenterology reports, 2008 - Springer
… The standard induction treatment of gastrointestinal CMV disease uses intravenous ganciclovir,
though the use of oral valganciclovir is increasing, especially for long-term maintenance …

Cytomegalovirus infection/disease after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

T Mori, J Kato - International journal of hematology, 2010 - Springer
… reconstitution against CMV. Delayed … ) CMV disease after HSCT in this era of preemptive
therapy. Foscarnet and valganciclovir are the available alternatives to intravenous ganciclovir. …

Use of cidofovir for cytomegalovirus disease refractory to ganciclovir in solid organ recipients

H Bonatti, CD Sifri, C Larcher, S Schneeberger… - Surgical …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
CMV disease in nine SOT recipients. … Cytomegalovirus infection was defined as a positive
CMV-specific assay in the absence of clinical symptoms, and CMV disease as a positive CMV

Use of cytomegalovirus immune globulin and ganciclovir for the prevention of cytomegalovirus disease in lung transplantation

MR Zamora - Transplant Infectious Disease, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… -term sequelae of CMV (12). Despite the use of combination therapy with IV ganciclovir and
CMV-IGIV, we also saw a significant incidence of BOS after CMV, albeit somewhat delayed …