Newly Diagnosed With Cytomegalovirus

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

Table of Contents Introduction How Is CMV Spread? How Do I Prevent CMV Infection? How Can I Tell If I Have CMV Infection? How Do I Prevent CMV Disease? Can I Ever Stop Preventive Therapy How Can I Tell if I Have CMV Disease? How Do You Treat CMV Disease? Concerns for Pregnant Women Concerns for Children Your CD4 Cell Counts How Can I Get the Medicines to Treat CMV? What About Resistance? What Research Is Being Done on...

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cytomegalovirus.....What is It?

Doctor,I have a very serious question to ask, I do not understand. My best friend has had a baby whom has been diagnosed with cytomegalvirous. She is a very healthy woman but had a difficult pregnancy, the baby was taken approximately 6 weeks early....

Response from Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D.

New York University, School of Medicine

Dear Peggy,CMV is a common virus to afflict the second born child. It is treatable if it is symptomatic as it can be in people with poor immune systems like babies or people with HIV. In children it will usually go away with age unless it is causing... Read more »

hiv and Cytomegalovirus

I was diagnosed hiv poz. in July this year. My cd4 was 615 and viral load of 355. I just got another set of results and cd4 is 552 cd8 511 ratio is 1.08. I also have a positive cytomegalovirus result 43 au/ml. Can you tell me what this means and...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Most HIV+ adults are CMV antibody positive indicating past history of infection (usually measured with a CMV IgG antibody titer). HIV+ persons with CD4 count < 100 are at incrased risk for CMV related disease which is sometimes monitored by CMV... Read more »

cytomegalovirus/ Congenital

My friend has had a son born with CMV. It was contracted whilst in the womb and has been born with CMV and has been diagnosed as being deaf in one ear, moderate learning disabilities, delayed speech etc. Do you have any information on long term...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

Congenital CMV causes exactly the kinds of problems that have already been diagnosed in this child. Children born with CMV may excrete the virus (in urine, for example) for months to years, and so can be a source of infection to others. Since I am... Read more »

I am newly diagnosed and anxious

Dear DR J frascino, i was diagnosed +ve in august 2003 i would be so relieved if u can help me, i would like to know ,in a 3 month time span after being newly diagnosed my viral load went up from 3900 copies to 11000 in 3 months is this normal for...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Ritch UK,Removal of semen? Just how were you planning on doing that? Let's hope you were thinking of jacking off every 10 minutes and not planning on doing your own home surgical procedure with a garden shears? Ouch!First and most... Read more »

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