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Involvement of cytomegalovirus infection in the ileal lesions of the patient with Behçet's disease

✍ Scribed by Sakae Mikami; Hiroshi Nakase; Satoru Ueno; Minoru Matsuura; Takaki Sakurai; Tsutomu Chiba

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
629 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
1078-0998

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✦ Synopsis

Considerable attention has been paid to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection as one of the exacerbating factors of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's diseases refractory to conventional therapies. 1-4 However, the involvement of CMV infection in the exacerbation of intestinal Behc ¸et's disease (BD) has not been reported to date. We herein reported the first case of Behc ¸et's ileocolitis associated with CMV infection, which was successfully treated with antiviral therapy. This case suggests that the importance of concomitant CMV infection should be kept in mind in patients of Behc ¸et's ileocolitis treated with immunosuppressant as well as patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.

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