Revista Ciencias Biomédicas (Dec 2015)
MENETRIER´S DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH AN INFECTION BY CYTOMEGALOVIRUS
Abstract
Introduction: Menetrier´s disease is rare in pediatrics. With no established etiology has been associated with viral and bacterial infections most of them able to generate an inflammatory process and protein-loosing with clinical abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and edema, spontaneous resolution after 4-6 weeks without sequelae. The main objective is to describe a menetrier´s disease case in a male child in pediatric. Clinical case: a three years old male child without perinatal history, with clinical profile of five days with vomiting, abundant diarrhea, not dysentery, and fever, in the last two days with bipalpebral edema. After the cropology test the patient presented Giardia lamblia cysts, treated with metronidazole. The child is remitted to Hospital Infantil Napoleón Franco Pareja in Cartagena-Colombia, because of evidence of edema bipalpebral. In the emergency room male child presented good general condition with acute illness, stable vital signs, blood count with mild leukocytosis, blood smear with toxic granulations in neutrophils, partial urine without proteinuria, serum albumin 1.26 g../ dl. normal transaminases, normal serum electrolytes, normal lipid profile, ultrasound with distended bowel moderate, upper endoscopy with hypertrophy folds mucosa and gastric body, hyperemia and friability without erosions. The biopsy showed chronic active gastropathy with marked foveal hyperplasia compatible with Menetrier disease. During his hospitalization was administered albumin 1 g / kg for four days with resolution of edema and serum protein, the patient was discharged with normal albumin and subsequent controls and then he continued asymptomatic with complete resolution of the clinical disease. Conclusion: Menetrier´s disease in children is self-limiting with duration from 4 to 6 weeks; it can present abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea and edema. With the clinical and endoscopic findings of gastric folds hypertrophy can be presumed diagnosis. It is confirmed by histopathological report; the natural course of this disease is benign, with complete resolution of symptoms. Rev.cienc.biomed. 2015; 6(2):354-359 KEYWORDS Menetrier’s disease; Hypoalbuminemia; Edema; Cytomegalovirus.
