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[Exudative gastropathy associated with cytomegalovirus infection after allogenic bone marrow transplantation]
J P Cervoni1, J L Pico, M Fabre
1Service des Maladies du Foie et de l'Appareil Digestif, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Gastroenterologie Clinique Et Biologique
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
The authors report a case of protein losing gastropathy associated with cytomegalovirus. This form which is extremely rare in adults occurred alone after allogenic bone marrow transplantation and become apparent by a hypoalbuminaemia causing oedema of the lower limbs. Gastrocopy showed large red folds of approximately a centimetre covered in a whitish hypersecretion coating. Biopsy demonstrated active gastritis which appeared on a hypertrophic and hypersecretive gastritis. Outcome was favourable within 3 months without treatment.