Effects of cytomegalovirus (CMV) can be fatal, but they do not occur frequently, usually the same people almost do not face these problems. Fear is only those who have a sharp steady decline in immunity. Practice has shown that it is people with immune deficiencies, pregnant women and newborns.
Effects of cytomegalovirus in men and women
Peculiarities of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in people with normal immunity is that it runs invisibly in the form of a protracted course of acute respiratory infection with lesions of the salivary glands, or as a mononucleosis syndrome. In some cases, a small (low-grade) temperature after the cytomegalovirus (CMV) can be kept for several weeks. CMV - infection can also affect the genitals. Men usually affects the urethra and testicles, in women - cervical canal.
Implications for cytomegalovirus men are usually in the long flowing infectious and inflammatory process, because inflammation of viral origin, sooner or later joined by a bacterial infection. Identify the cause of this process is not easy, often men go to the doctor at the time of the survey for infertility. The consequences for women are exactly the same: a viral infection, "opens the door" for bacterial and mixed infectious-inflammatory process leads to infertility.
In order to win infertility in this case need to carefully examine the patient and the results of the survey assign adequate treatment.
The effects of cytomegalovirus infection in patients with immunodeficiency
In immunocompromised patients CMV manifests itself in full force. Infectious and inflammatory processes in these patients receive acute or chronic generalized renal disease (acute and chronic nephritis), liver (acute and chronic hepatitis), pancreas
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(acute and chronic pancreatitis), gastrointestinal tract (acute and chronic gastoenterokolit) and so on.
But the most frequent consequence of CMV infection in immunocompromised patients is pneumonia caused by a mixed viral and bacterial infection. The disease can occur very difficult transition in the chronic form.
Very often it affects the central nervous system, mainly the shell and brain tissue and organs of vision. In patients with reduced immunity often develop chronic meningoencephalitis, which leads to lower intelligence and dementia. With the defeat of the organs of vision can develop blindness.
Effects of cytomegalovirus in pregnant women
Pregnant women who have had CMV infection is great enough risk of intrauterine infection of the fetus in the transmission of CMV from mother to fetus. In this primary CMV infection (if a woman is infected for the first time during pregnancy) is much more dangerous relapse of chronic infection. But, fortunately, in most cases, even primary CMV - infection is without consequences.
If CMV infection occurred in the first trimester or the first half of the second trimester, when the fetus intrauterine infection often develop malformations incompatible with life, and pregnancy is terminated by spontaneous abortion
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In later periods, the threat of intrauterine infection persists and the consequence of such infections may be damage to the central nervous system. The effects are manifested in the form of hydrocephalus (water on the brain when the baby's head becomes abnormally large), microcephaly (head of the child is very melenko due to lower volume of the brain), seizures, dementia, impaired vision and hearing even blindness and deafness. Sometimes the child is born apparently healthy, and the symptoms of intrauterine infection manifested him in a few weeks, months and even years.
Effects of cytomegalovirus for babies
CMV infection in newborns in most cases runs hard, in generalized form with the defeat of the internal organs and the central nervous system. Liver damage as acute hepatitis
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It leads to progressive jaundice caused by the large amount of bile pigments in the blood, hemolytic anemia (anemia caused by destruction of red blood cells), reduction in blood platelets, and increased tendency to bleeding.
The defeat of the central nervous system may be manifested in the form of seizures, as well as the severe consequences of meningoencephalitis as mental retardation, and even complete mental retardation
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The consequence of CMV infection in newborns can also be visual and hearing impairment, even blindness and deafness.
Galina Romanenko
