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Use of Letermovir for Salvage Therapy for Resistant Cytomegalovirus in a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient.

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Kilgore, JT; Becken, B; Varga, MG; Parikh, S; Prasad, V; Lugo, D; Chang, Y-C
Published in: J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc
September 17, 2020

We present here the first published use of letermovir for the treatment of resistant cytomegalovirus (CMV) in a pediatric patient. A 14-year-old girl underwent a double unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation to treat her sickle cell disease (hemoglobin SS) and developed ganciclovir-resistant CMV DNAemia with end-organ involvement that was treated successfully with a combination of foscarnet and letermovir. After she was transitioned to letermovir monotherapy for secondary prophylaxis, she developed recurrent DNAemia with laboratory-confirmed ganciclovir, foscarnet, and letermovir resistance.

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J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc

DOI

EISSN

2048-7207

Publication Date

September 17, 2020

Volume

9

Issue

4

Start / End Page

486 / 489

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Salvage Therapy
  • Quinazolines
  • Immunocompromised Host
  • Humans
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Female
  • Drug Resistance, Viral
  • Cytomegalovirus Infections
  • Antiviral Agents
  • Adolescent
 

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Kilgore, J. T., Becken, B., Varga, M. G., Parikh, S., Prasad, V., Lugo, D., & Chang, Y.-C. (2020). Use of Letermovir for Salvage Therapy for Resistant Cytomegalovirus in a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc, 9(4), 486–489. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piz050
Kilgore, Jacob T., Bradford Becken, Matthew G. Varga, Suhag Parikh, Vinod Prasad, Debra Lugo, and Yeh-Chung Chang. “Use of Letermovir for Salvage Therapy for Resistant Cytomegalovirus in a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient.J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc 9, no. 4 (September 17, 2020): 486–89. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piz050.
Kilgore JT, Becken B, Varga MG, Parikh S, Prasad V, Lugo D, et al. Use of Letermovir for Salvage Therapy for Resistant Cytomegalovirus in a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2020 Sep 17;9(4):486–9.
Kilgore, Jacob T., et al. “Use of Letermovir for Salvage Therapy for Resistant Cytomegalovirus in a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient.J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc, vol. 9, no. 4, Sept. 2020, pp. 486–89. Pubmed, doi:10.1093/jpids/piz050.
Kilgore JT, Becken B, Varga MG, Parikh S, Prasad V, Lugo D, Chang Y-C. Use of Letermovir for Salvage Therapy for Resistant Cytomegalovirus in a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2020 Sep 17;9(4):486–489.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc

DOI

EISSN

2048-7207

Publication Date

September 17, 2020

Volume

9

Issue

4

Start / End Page

486 / 489

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Salvage Therapy
  • Quinazolines
  • Immunocompromised Host
  • Humans
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Female
  • Drug Resistance, Viral
  • Cytomegalovirus Infections
  • Antiviral Agents
  • Adolescent