Abstract
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in immunosuppressed patients. Though acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is an immunosuppressed state, CMV disease has been reported infrequently. We present a patient of adult B lineage ALL who was on maintenance chemotherapy and developed CMV pneumonia. Patient was managed with intravenous ganciclovir and had successful outcome. However, three weeks later patient had a relapse of ALL and died shortly after high dose chemotherapy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 541-542 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Journal of the Association of Physicians of India |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | JUL |
| State | Published - Jul 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |