A case series of gastrointestinal tuberculosis in renal transplant patients.
Case Rep Nephrol
; 2013: 213273, 2013.
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| ID: mdl-24558621
ABSTRACT
Tuberculosis is a disease relatively frequent in renal transplant patients, presenting a wide variety of clinical manifestations, often involving various organs and potentially fatal. Gastrointestinal tuberculosis, although rare in the general population, is about 50 times more frequent in renal transplant patients. Intestinal tuberculosis has a very difficult investigational approach, requiring a high clinical suspicion for its diagnosis. Therapeutic options may be a problem in the context of an immunosuppressed patient, requiring adjustment of maintenance therapy. The authors report two cases of isolated gastro-intestinal tuberculosis in renal transplant recipients that illustrates the difficulty of making this diagnosis and a brief review of the literature on its clinical presentation, diagnosis, and therapeutic approach.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Case Rep Nephrol
Year:
2013
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Portugal