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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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HIV and CMV (CMV)

Hi...My dad has been HIV+ for about 9 years now. He was diagnosed with ALL last year (which at this moment is currently in remission). He is currently taking maintence chemo pills and Atripla for his HIV. He was just told he has CMV. Is he in the...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

birth. See the section "Concerns for children" for more information.How Do You Treat CMV Disease?Most of the time, treating CMV disease happens in two stages: induction therapy and maintenance therapy. Induction therapy is used to treat... Read more »

CMV effects

A seven month old infant was born and diagnosed with CMV before birth. Labor was induced early because the body was getting too large for the head. The mother has been told that the child will be perfectly normal by age 2. Is this true?...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

Not necessarily. The baby should be treated for CMV and monitored closely for congenital problems that may not be apparent until later, such as hearing loss. I hope the mother has had this baby evaluated by a pediatric infectious diseases... Read more »

cmv help!!!!

Please help if you can. I had a test last week that showed my liver elevations were high. I had an ultrasound on liver ab kidneys. Tests were normal for liver, a slightly enlarged spleen 12 cm in length. A questionable smal echogenic focus...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

It sounds like you may have picked up Hep C from the transfusion, and possibly CMV as well. Once all the testing including repeat HIV are is completed, taalk to your doctor about the possibility of treatment for hepatitis C. HIV- people with... Read more »

multiple drug resistance, poor response, cmv retinitis returns

I've been off antivirals now for 5 months, after genotype and phenotype show no viable combinations for me. Been through almost everything, resistant to most.CD4 is 34, vl is 433,000, and now CMV retinitis is reactivated. I'd like to avoid...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

No. CMV is a systemic disease, which means that virus can be found throughout the body, not just in the eye. Studies of the ganciclovir implant have demonstrated a real risk of disease elsewhere-- including the untreated eye-- because the only... Read more »

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cmv, rd detach,loosing my vision

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

HI
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT TO DO IN MY SITUATION, I HAD MY RETINA RE-ATTACHED, HOWEVER EVERYTHING IS DARK, DUE TO TISSUE GROWING AFTER SURGERY, I NEED SOME ADVISED, THANK YOU

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HPV CMV

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When do these show up in HIV infection

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support groups for people with CMV and blindness?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Hey everybody,

I'm living in Miami Beach in Florida, and have CMV Retinitis. I was wondering if anybody out there knows of, or might want to start, a support group or organizations for people with CMV Retinitis who suffered blindness as a result of... Read more »

eye implant for cmv

Posted by princealbert, 1 Reply

Has anyone had a vitrasert implant for cmv retinitis? I'm concerned because it's now 2 1/2 weeks after surgery, and my vision is still very cloudy, like someone smeared vaseline over my
right lens. I've been examined 3 times thoroughly, and doctors... Read more »

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