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Five Covid Patients at Delhi Hospital Suffered Rectal Bleeding Due to Cytomegalovirus, One Dies
News 18Five Covid-19 patients have suffered cytomegalovirus-related rectal bleeding at a leading private facility here during the second wave of the pandemic, hospital authorities said on Tuesday and claimed it was being reported for the “first time” in immunocompetent persons. Until now it affected only immunocompromised patients, post-transplant, cancer, AIDS, etc., but this is the “first time in India” that cases of CMV-related rectal bleeding in Covid immunocompetent patients have been reported, a spokesperson of the hospital said. According to Prof Anil Arora, chairman, Institute of Liver Gastroenterology and Pancreaticobiliary Sciences at the hospital, “During the second wave of the pandemic, in April-May, we have seen five cases of CMV infection in otherwise immunocompetent patients with COVID-19.” These patients presented with pain in abdomen and bleeding during stool discharge. But in these five cases, all patients presented with “low lymphocyte count ”, indicating Covid-induced suppression of immunity predisposing them to symptomatic reactivation of CMV infection, doctors said.
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