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Age and Ageing Advance Access published online on January 18, 2006
Age and Ageing, doi:10.1093/ageing/afj038
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Received November 22, 2005
Accepted December 6, 2005

Case Report

Cytomegalovirus colitis--an unusual cause for diarrhoea in an elderly woman

M. Rose Lockwood 1 *, Jane Liddle 1, and Panagiota Kitsanta 2

1 Department of Health Care for the Elderly, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK
2 Histopathology Department, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
M. Rose Lockwood, E-mail: rosielockwood{at}aol.com


  Abstract

Background: clinically apparent cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease is uncommon in the immunocompetent host, despite the high seroprevalence rate of CMV in the general population.

Case report: here, we report the case of CMV colitis in an immunocompetent elderly woman who developed a large pulmonary embolism during her illness.

Discussion: the diagnosis of CMV colitis is made on histological examination of biopsy specimens obtained at sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy. Extensive CMV disease can be accompanied by vascular thrombosis.

Keywords: elderly, cytomegalovirus, colitis, thrombosis.
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