1997 Volume 11 Issue 6 Pages 455-459
A three-month-old female infant was admitted for an evaluation and treatment of central nervous system infiltration, hepatosplenomegaly and eruption. With the diagnosis of non-lymphocytic leukemia (FAB M0), she was treated with chemotherapy. At 3 months after admission, she developed abdominal distension, vomiting and bloody stool. We performed a laparotomy twice for intestinal obstruction. Cytomegalovirus was detected from a specimen of excised small intestine. Despite antiviral therapy, she died from malnutirition. Cytomegalovirus infection may have occurred during the perinatal period. Care sould be taken to watch for primary cytomegalovirus infections in infants with leukemia.
