Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital issued a press launch on Tuesday reporting 5 circumstances of Cytomegalovirus in India.
Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has reported 5 circumstances of Cytomegalovirus. The hospital mentioned that some patients got here in complaining of rectal bleeding, which upon analysis was linked to Cytomegalovirus. All these patients skilled this condition after testing constructive for COVID 19.
According to Prof. Anil Arora, these circumstances have been detected in the course of the second wave of COVID 19 in April-May. All the patients have been in any other case COVID immunocompetent and skilled rectal bleeding and ache in the stomach after about 20 to 30 days of testing constructive for COVID 19.
The report means that Covid an infection and the remedy might be answerable for unusual infections, one of which is Cytomagelo virus. This virus exists in 80 to 90 per cent of the Indian inhabitants. However, it’s unlikely for signs to point out as a result of bodily immunity is robust sufficient to make it clinically asymptomatic.
“In such cases, a high index of suspicion and timely intervention in the form of an early diagnosis and effective antiviral therapy can save many lives”, mentioned Dr. Praveen Sharma, Senior Consultant, Gastroenterology Department.
All 5 circumstances have been from Delhi-NCR and have been detected in the age group of 30 to 70 years. Four of them skilled bleeding in their stool whereas one different skilled intestinal obstruction.
