ABSTRACT
Disseminated human cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease occurs mainly as a congenital infection and among immunocompromised hosts. Patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are at increased risk for CMV infection, and the most prevalent clinical manifestation is retinitis, followed by colitis, esophagitis, pneumonitis, and encephalitis. CMV oophoritis is poorly described in the literature with some cases reported in patients with hematological or solid malignancies, bone marrow or solid organ transplantation, immunosuppressive therapy, and advanced AIDS cases. We report the case of a 61-year-old woman with a recent diagnosis of AIDS, which was associated with a wasting syndrome. The patient presented with abdominal pain, headache, cutaneous vesicular lesions on the abdomen, anemia, lymphopenia, and hyponatremia; she died suddenly on the fourth day of hospitalization. The autopsy was performed and demonstrated disseminated CMV infection with hemorrhagic encephalitis as the immediate cause of death. Additionally, pneumonitis, extensive adrenalitis, ulcerated enteritis, focal hepatitis, and necrotizing oophoritis were found.
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Humans , Female , Middle Aged , Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/complications , Cytomegalovirus Infections/complications , Autopsy , Cytomegalovirus Infections/pathology , Encephalitis/pathology , Fatal Outcome , Oophoritis/complicationsABSTRACT
É relatado o caso clínico de um paciente do sexo masculino com 10 anos de idade, cuja miocardiopatia dilatada e preponderante de ventrículo direito apresenta dificuldades diagnósticas entre a etiologia de miocardite prévia e a displasia arritmogênica. Como os elementos não são patognomônicos de uma ou de outra causa, a elevacão de enzimas cardíacas na fase subaguda talvez incline para a suposicão de miocardite prévia. Daí, o questionamento de que muitos casos rotulados como displasia arritmogênica poderem, verdadeiramente, corresponder à possibilidade de miocardite evolutiva. A controvertida conduta clínica é discutida.