Cytomegalovirus Colitis- an Uncommon Complication of COVID-19 Infection in an Immunocompetent Man

Thomas Fincham, Bahij Al-Hakim, Nadeem Sarwar, Theodora Jones and Jamil Choudhury

Department of Ageing and Complex Medicine, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK Department of Gastroenterology, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK Department of Pathology, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK

^*Correspondance to: Thomas Fincham 

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Abstract:

A 78 year old gentleman presented to hospital with COVID-19 pneumonitis requiring treatment with supplemental oxygen and dexamethasone. His inpatient stay was complicated with hematochezia on the background of a short history of watery diarrhea. An area of deep distal rectal ulceration was demonstrated on his colonoscopy which was later shown to be secondary to CMV infection. Although CMV co-infection with COVID-19 has been reported previously this is the first case describing a patient presenting with overt hematochezia.

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Fincham T, Al-Hakim B, Sarwar N, Jones T, Choudhury J. Cytomegalovirus Colitis- an Uncommon Complication of COVID-19 Infection in an Immunocompetent Man. Ann Clin Case Rep. 2021; 6: 1990..