Lupus & antiphospholipid syndrome
Cytomegalovirus infection and disease in systemic lupus erythematosus patients at a high-complexity hospital in southwestern Colombia
Authors' conclusion
Age ≥38 years and the presence of septic shock at admission were correlated to the mortality outcome.
Study context
- Population
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection/disease at a high-complexity hospital in southwestern Colombia, 2011–2020
- Participants
- 16 patients
- Outcome
- Clinical characteristics and outcomes of SLE patients with CMV infection/disease
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Renal involvement
- 10 patients; 62.50%
- Steroids before CMV infection
- 14 patients (87.5%)
- Hospital admission
- 16
- Intensive care unit (ICU) admission
- 9
- Received ganciclovir
- 16
- Septic shock
- five (31.25%)
- Died
- seven (43.75%)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Cytomegalovirus infection and disease in systemic lupus erythematosus patients at a high-complexity hospital in southwestern Colombia. Lupus. Published 6 May 2024. doi:10.
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