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Cytomegalovirus pneumonia after stem cell transplantation: correlation of CT findings with clinical outcome in 30 patients.

Horger MS, Pfannenberg C, Einsele H, Beck R, Hebart H, Lengerke C, Vonthein R, Wehrmann M, Faul C, Claussen C

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Hoppe-Seyler-Strasse 3, Tuebingen 72076, Germany. mshorger@med.uni-tuebingen.de

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to assess the correlation between early high-resolution CT findings of cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonia in patients with blood disorders and their clinical outcomes. CONCLUSION: The initial high-resolution CT findings in immunocompromised patients with CMV pneumonia seem to predict the patient's outcome being unfavorable in those forms of disease beginning mostly bilaterally as diffuse or patchy ground-glass opacity followed by progressive air-space consolidation. Also, a change in the CT morphology of pulmonary lesions toward diffuse ground-glass opacity seems to correlate with an unfavorable disease course.

Published 20 November 2006 in AJR Am J Roentgenol, 187(6): W636-43.
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