● Kidney failure ● Urinary tract infections ● Enlarged liver ● Cataracts (
potentially leading to blindness) ● Seizures ● Kidney failure
Not exact matches
In healthy individuals HCMV establishes lifelong latency, but in immunocompromised patients, viral reactivation can
lead to severe clinical symptoms, such as disseminated viral infection,
blindness and
potentially cancer.
Even worse, a miscalculation or lapse in regimen can cause blood sugar levels
to rise too high (hyperglycemia),
potentially leading to heart disease,
blindness and other long - term complications, or
to plummet too low (hypoglycemia), which in the worst cases can result in coma or even death.
Reasons behind this were the risks involved with delaying
potentially - aggravating eye problems could
lead to blindness.