Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in a press release on Tuesday reported five cases of cytomegalovirus in India.
Five cases of cytomegalovirus have been reported in Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. The hospital said some patients came with complaints of rectal bleeding, which when diagnosed was linked to cytomegalovirus. All these patients experienced this condition after testing positive for COVID 19.
Pro. According to Anil Arora, these cases were detected during the second wave of COVID 19 in April-May. All patients were otherwise COVID immune and experienced rectal bleeding and abdominal pain approximately 20 to 30 days after testing positive for COVID 19.
The report suggests that COVID infection and treatment may be responsible for unusual infections, one of which is cytomegalovirus. This virus is present in 80 to 90 percent of the population of India. However, symptoms are unlikely to appear as the physical immunity is strong enough to make it clinically asymptomatic.
“In such cases, a high index of suspicion and timely intervention in the form of early diagnosis and effective antiviral therapy can save many lives,” said Dr. Praveen Sharma, Senior Consultant, Department of Gastroenterology.
All the five cases were from Delhi-NCR and were found in the age group of 30 to 70 years. Four of them experienced bleeding in the stool while one experienced intestinal obstruction.
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