Year 2023 / Volume 115 / Number 7
Letter
Rectal cytomegalovirus ulcer in an immunocompetent patient: an uncommon cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding

402

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9172/2022

Stalin Yance Contreras, Pedro Montes Teves, Fernando Arévalo Suárez,

Abstract
We report the case of an 80-years-old male patient who presented with hematochezia without hemodynamic compromise and with a history of laryngeal squamous-cell carcinoma that was operated on 2 weeks before the bleeding episode.
Share Button
New comment
Comments
No comments for this article
References
1. Ko JH, Peck KR, Lee WJ, et al. Clinical presentation and risk factors for cytomegalovirus colitis in immunocompetent adult patients. Clin Infect Dis. 2015;60(6):e20-e26.
2. Fakhreddine AY, Frenette CT, Konijeti GG. A Practical Review of Cytomegalovirus in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Gastroenterol Res Pract. 2019;2019:6156581.
3. Liu KY, Chao HM, Lu YJ, et al. Cytomegalovirus proctitis in non-human immunodeficiency virus infected patients: A case report and literature review. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2022 Feb;55(1):154-160.
4. Westerhoff M. Histologic features of colonic infections. Histologie bei Dickdarminfektionen. Pathologe. 2022;43(1):16-30.
5. Nangle S, Mitra S, Roskos S, et al. Cytomegalovirus infection in immunocompetent adults: Is observation still the best strategy?. IDCases. 2018;14:e00442.
Related articles

Letter

Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9913/2023

Digestive Diseases Image

Germ cell tumor with duodenal involvement: a rare case of gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9327/2022

Letter

A rare cause of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9156/2022

Letter

Weil syndrome coincident with upper gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9086/2022

Letter

A full hemostatic repertoire in a complex cirrhotic patient

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9039/2022

Letter

Hemostasis of a bleeding inverted colonic diverticulum

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9019/2022

Letter

Primary intestinal melanoma?

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8944/2022

Letter

A rare cause of a bulging mass in the mid esophagus

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8834/2022

Digestive Diseases Image

Ileal neuroendocrine tumor as an uncommon cause of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8641/2022

Digestive Diseases Image

Bezoar: an uncommon cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2021.8311/2021

Letter

COVID-19 and aorto-enteric fistula

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2021.8272/2021

Digestive Diseases Image

Ink stained gastric lesions: a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2021.8141/2021

Digestive Diseases Image

Gastric plasmacytoma: a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2021.7816/2021

Letter to the Editor

Severe obscure gastrointestinal bleeding successfully treated with idarucizumab

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2018.5298/2017

Letter to the Editor

Cytomegalovirus: associated ischemic colitis in an immunocompetent patient

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4937/2017

Letter to the Editor

Gangliocytic paraganglioma: an unusual cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4808/2016

Letter to the Editor

Gastric neuroendocrine tumor presenting with gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3998/2015

Case Report

Downhill varices: an uncommon cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3697/2015

Citation tools
Yance Contreras S, Montes Teves P, Arévalo Suárez F. Rectal cytomegalovirus ulcer in an immunocompetent patient: an uncommon cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding. 9172/2022


Download to a citation manager

Download the citation for this article by clicking on one of the following citation managers:

Metrics
This article has received 337 visits.
This article has been downloaded 71 times.

Statistics from Dimensions


Statistics from Plum Analytics

Publication history

Received: 31/08/2022

Accepted: 05/10/2022

Online First: 10/11/2022

Published: 06/07/2023

Article Online First time: 71 days

Article editing time: 309 days


Share
This article hasn't been rated yet.
Reader rating:
Valora este artículo:




Asociación Española de Ecografía Digestiva Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva Sociedad Española de Patología Digestiva
The Spanish Journal of Gastroenterology is the official organ of the Sociedad Española de Patología Digestiva, the Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva and the Asociación Española de Ecografía Digestiva
Cookie policy Privacy Policy Legal Notice © Copyright 2023 y Creative Commons. The Spanish Journal of Gastroenterology