Endoscopic diagnosis of cytomegalovirus gastritis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Table 5 CMV inclusion bodies and response to ganciclovir of CMV gastritis

	Positive specimens with CMV inclusion bodies/total specimens in EGD biopsy				Response to ganciclovir		Outcome
	Total	Erosions	Mucosal sloughing	Other findings or normal mucosa	Abdominal pain	CMV antigenemia assay	Outcome	Cause of death
Case 1	1/2	1/2	None	0	Continued	Continued	Death	Bacterial pneumonia
Case 2	2/2	None	2/21	0	Improved	Turned negative	Death	Recurrence of primary disease
Case 3	2/3	2/31	None	0	Improved	Turned negative	Death	Renal failure
Case 4	5/7	4/4	None	12/3	Improved	Turned negative	Alive	NA
Case 5	1/5	1/1	None	0/4	Improved	Turned negative	Alive	NA
Case 6	4/7	3/3	None	12/4	NA	Turned negative	Alive	NA
Case 7	1/3	1/1	None	0/2	NA3	NA4	Death	Recurrence of primary disease
Case 7		26, male, ML		Nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort	NA	NA	NA	01

¹Oozing was accompanied in these findings;

²The patient was not given ganciclovir, but CMV gastritis improved spontaneously;

³The patient was not given ganciclovir, and CMV antigenemia remained negative throughout clinical course;

⁴The patient was not given ganciclovir, and CMV antigenemia remained negative throughout clinical course.