Pulmonary Hypertension as a rare complication of Congenital Cytomegalovirus

Layah Alkoby ¹ Jacob Amir, Prof. ^1,2 Daniel Lubin ³ Gil Kalinger ^1,4 Giora Gutsman ⁵ Samuel Zangen ⁶ Efraim Bilavsky ^1,2

¹Department of Pediatrics C, Schneider Children's Medical Center,, Petah Tiqva, Israel
²Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
³Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center, Bnei Brak, Israel
⁴Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel
⁵Department of Pediatrics, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel
⁶Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel

We describe three children with congenital Cytomegalovirus infection and persistent pulmonary hypertension. This complication is rarely seen and scarcely described in medical literature. The association of these two medical conditions is discussed.