...Christophe Baudouin; Christophe Chassain; Catherine Caujolle; Pierre Gastaud Purpose: Intravitreal injections of ganciclovir provide a useful adjunct or alternative treatment for cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS patients when toxicity or progression is seen with systemic administration...

... transplant recipients with a maintenance therapy of cyclosporin and prednisone or during chemotherapy in patients with myelo-proliferative disorders. Generally, in less than 2% could severe opportunistic infections of the eye, like cytomegalovirus (CMV) or herpes virus infection, be found in transplant...

...A.M. Mansour; Helen K. Li Little is known about the natural history of cytomegalovirus (CMV) optic neuritis in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. We analyzed the clinical course of CMV optic neuritis in 30 consecutive subjects (35 eyes), and compared the survival of patients with CMV optic...

...B.A. Lafaut; R.N.G. Vianna; F. de Baets; F. Meire A benign course of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis is reported in a young patient with selective immunoglobulin G2 (IgG2) deficiency, after corticosteroid treatment for inflammatory pulmonary disease. IgG2 deficiency is a specific disorder...

...B. Daicker The clinical history and the pathohistological findings of both eyes of a homosexual man with AIDS and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection are reported. A CMV panuveitis with cytomegalic transformation of vascular endothelium was present in the posterior and anterior uvea as well...

...Maria Severin; Christian Hartmann We report on a patient in whom a cytomegalovirus infection occurred in connection with AIDS. Together with the alterations of the fundus typical for cytomegalovirus retinitis, reticular deposits were observed on the corneal endothelium. Specular microscopy showed...

...J. Schwoerer; P. Othenin-Girard; C.P. Herbort A 76-year-old woman with unilateral acute retinal necrosis had an elevated titer of cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibodies with both in the aqueous humor and serum. The serological pattern indicated recent CMV infection, and the Goldmann-Witmer coefficient...

...Rubens Camargo Siqueira; Aldo Cunha; Fernando Oréfice; Wesley Ribeiro Campos; Luiz Tadeu M. Figueiredo Purpose: To detect the cytomegalovirus (CMV) genome by PCR in the aqueous humor, blood leukocytes and vitreous of patients affected by retinitis and immune recovery uveitis (IRU). Methods: A PCR...

...Wen-Ming Hsu; Steve S.-L. Chen; Chi-Hsien Peng; Chieh-Fu Chen; Yu-Chieh Ko; Der-Chong Tsai; Ching-Kuang Chou; Larry L.-T. Ho; Shih-Hwa Chiou; Jorn-Hon Liu Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) retinitis is the most common ocular opportunistic infection in AIDS. It often leads to blindness if left untreated...