Treatments for Cytomegalovirus
Cytomegalovirus: Is the Diagnosis Correct?
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Hospital statistics for Cytomegalovirus:
These medical statistics relate to hospitals, hospitalization and Cytomegalovirus:
- 0.003% (404) of hospital consultant episodes were for cytomegaloviral disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 87% of hospital consultant episodes for cytomegaloviral disease required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 65% of hospital consultant episodes for cytomegaloviral disease were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 35% of hospital consultant episodes for cytomegaloviral disease were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 41% of hospital consultant episodes for cytomegaloviral disease required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Other Important STDS, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID (Excerpt)
NIAID
scientists are testing new antiviral drugs that might be effective
against CMV infections. The antiviral drugs foscarnet and
ganciclovir have been approved for treating people with
AIDS-associated CMV retinitis. (Source: excerpt from Other Important STDS, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection: DVRD (Excerpt)
Currently, no treatment exists for CMV infection in the healthy individual. Antiviral drug therapy is now being
evaluated in infants. Ganciclovir treatment is used for patients with depressed
immunity who have either sight-related or life-threatening illnesses. Vaccines are still in the research and development stage. (Source: excerpt from Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection: DVRD)
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Genital herpes:
Treatment
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Acyclovir has proved to be an effective treatment for genital herpes. I.V. administration may be required for patients who are hospitalized with severe genital herpes or for those who are immunocompromised and have a potentially life-threatening herpes infection. Oral acyclovir may be prescribed for the patient with a first-time infection or recurrent outbreak. Other agents include famciclovir, valacyclovir, and penciclovir; these drugs suppress symptoms but don’t cure the infection. Daily prophylaxis with acyclovir reduces the frequency of recurrences by at least 50%, but this is only appropriate for a patient with frequent outbreaks and may not decrease transmission rate of the disease.
Foscavir, a powerful antiviral agent, is the treatment of choice for herpes strains that are severe in nature or have become resistant to acyclovir and similar drugs. Administered I.V., foscavir can have several toxic effects, such as reversible impairment of kidney function or induction of sei-zures. As with other antiviral drugs, this drug doesn’t cure herpes.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Herpes simplex:
Treatment
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
No cure for herpes exists; however, recurrences tend to be milder and of shorter duration than the primary infection. Symptomatic and supportive therapy is essential. Generalized primary infection usually requires an analgesic-antipyretic to reduce fever and relieve pain. Anesthetic mouthwashes, such as viscous lidocaine, may reduce the pain of gingivostomatitis, enabling the patient to eat and preventing dehydration. (Avoid alcohol-based mouthwashes.) Drying agents, such as calamine lotion, ease the pain of labial or skin lesions. Avoid petroleum-based ointments, which promote viral spread and slow healing.
Refer patients with eye infections to an ophthalmologist. Topical corticosteroids are contraindicated in active infection, but idoxuridine, trifluridine, and vidarabine are effective.
Oral acyclovir may bring relief to patients with genital herpes. Frequent prophylactic use of acyclovir in immunosuppressed transplant patients prevents disseminated disease.Foscarnet can be used to treat HVH that’s resistant to acyclovir. Anti-viral agents similar to acyclovir are valacyclovir and famciclovir. These agents are more active than acyclovir.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Cytomegalovirus infection:
Treatment
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Treatment aims to relieve symptoms and prevent complications. In the immunosuppressed patient, CMV may be treated with acyclovir, ganciclovir, valganciclovir, cidofovir and, possibly, foscarnet. Most important, parents of children with severe congenital CMV infection need support and counseling to help them cope with the possibility of brain damage or death.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Herpes simplex:
Treatment
(Handbook of Diseases)
Symptomatic and supportive therapy is essential. Generalized primary infection usually requires an analgesic-antipyretic to reduce fever and relieve pain. Anesthetic mouthwashes, such as viscous lidocaine, may reduce the pain of gingivostomatitis, enabling the patient to eat and preventing dehydration. Drying agents, such as calamine lotion, make labial lesions less painful.
Refer patients with eye infections to an ophthalmologist. Topical cortico-steroids are contraindicated in active infection, but idoxuridine, trifluridine, and vidarabine are effective.
A 5% acyclovir ointment may bring relief to patients with genital herpes or to immunosuppressed patients with HVH skin infections. I.V. acyclovir helps treat more severe infections. (See Treating and preventing herpes simplex.)
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Cytomegalovirus infection:
Treatment
(Handbook of Diseases)
Because CMV infection is usually self-limiting, treatment aims to relieve symptoms and prevent complications. In the immunosuppressed patient, however, CMV is treated with acyclovir, ganciclovir, and foscarnet, combined with anti-CMV immune globulin for pneumonitis and possible GI disease.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
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