Giant cell infection in infants?

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Giant cell infection in infants, also known as congenital infection or mother to child transmission disease, refers to intrauterine infection of fetus caused by infection during pregnancy. The main route of intrauterine infection is vertical transmission of pathogenic microorganism to fetus through placenta; The retrograde diffusion of pathogenic microorganisms in the lower genital tract of pregnant women; Perinatal infection during delivery. Giant cell infection in infants? Let's talk about it.

Giant cell infection in infants?

1. It is one of the important ways of human cytomegalovirus infection. 90% of the infected fetuses are recessive infection, only 10% of them are clinical infection, but sometimes the consequence is more serious.

2. Acquired infection of cytomegalovirus in infants, mostly recessive infection or mild symptoms, but the clinical manifestations of a few patients are more serious, perinatal infection of neonatal patients, some of them may be intrauterine infection, can be persistent pneumonia, children and adult patients can develop cytomegalovirus hepatitis.

3. Ganciclovir and foscarnet sodium are two kinds of antiviral drugs for the treatment of CMV infection. They have been used in the treatment of AIDS patients, patients with CMV infection after organ transplantation, or prophylactic drugs after organ transplantation, but the clinical effect is not very ideal.

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There are two ways to prevent CMV pneumonia: 1. Patients with evidence of CMV activity after transplantation, but without clinical manifestations, are given ganciclovir treatment, which is called pre-treatment; ② The patients with risk factors of CMV infection were treated with ganciclovir, i.e. preventive treatment. The time of preventive treatment was generally 2-4 months. Read the knowledge behind the entry.