Cytomegalovirus reactivation in patients diagnosed with severe COVID-19 : A point prevalence study in a general hospital

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of CMV reactivation in a population admitted for severe COVID-19 to a general hospital.

METHODS: Point prevalence study in all hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 (admitted either to general wards or ICU). Determination of the presence of CMV DNA in circulating blood. COVID-19 was confirmed in patients with compatible clinical manifestations, usually with pneumonia and a positive nasopharyngeal PCR test.

RESULTS: We included 140 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 who consented to participate. A total of 16 patients (11.42%), had circulating CMV-DNA in peripheral blood at the time of the study. Patients with positive CMV viral load were mainly ICU patients (11/37 -29,7%) and only 5/103 cases (4,85%) were hospitalized into general wards. The accumulated doses of corticosteroids (prednisone equivalents) in the study day were (median and IQR) 987.50 mg (396.87-2,454.68) and 187.50 mg (75.00-818.12) respectively in CMV positive and negative patients (p < 0.001). A significant proportion of CMV positive patients were discovered because of the study and were clinically unsuspected by their physicians. The coinfected COVID-CMV positive population had a higher risk of accumulated secondary nosocomially-acquired infections and a worse prognosis.

CONCLUSIONS: CMV reactivation should be systematically searched in patients in COVID-19 cases admitted to the ICU.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia - 36(2023), 1 vom: 21. Feb., Seite 45-51

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pérez-Granda, M J [VerfasserIn]
Catalán, P [VerfasserIn]
Muñoz, P [VerfasserIn]
Aldámiz, T [VerfasserIn]
Barrios, J C [VerfasserIn]
Ramírez, C [VerfasserIn]
García-Martínez, R [VerfasserIn]
Villalba, M V [VerfasserIn]
Puente, L [VerfasserIn]
Bouza, E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

CMV
COVID-19
Coinfection
Cytomegalovirus
Journal Article
Nosocomial infection
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 24.01.2023

Date Revised 17.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.37201/req/068.2022

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349221650