Details of two patients with alcohol-related and mixed aetiology cirrhosis who developed acute-on-chronic liver failure/hepatic decompensation with no obvious precipitants are reported. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection or reactivation was diagnosed in both, and required treatment with ganciclovir in one. Both returned to baseline hepatic function and remain well. Physicians should be alert to the possibility that CMV might cause or contribute to hepatic decompensation in patients with cirrhosis, even if they are not severely immunocompromised, and especially if they are alcohol misusers.
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
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6%
Nursing and Health Professions
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6%
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Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 August 2015.
All research outputs
#13,952,587
of 22,821,814 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Open Gastroenterology
#196
of 348 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#199,328
of 393,250 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Open Gastroenterology
#13
of 26 outputs
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