Late post transplant HIV infection with BK viremia and allograft tuberculosis in a renal transplant recipient with Kaposi sarcoma.

Sep 2012

Viswanathan V, Kandasamy V, Reddy YN, Reddy YN, Kurien A, Mathew M, Abraham G.

Source

Department of Medicine and Tanker Foundation, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India.

Abstract

In this report, we discuss a case of a 51-year-old African renal transplant who presented with metastatic Kaposi sarcoma1 year after transplant. The Kaposi sarcoma was treated with a switch of immunosuppressants and chemotherapy. Six years after transplant, he presented with chronic allograft nephropathy, allograft tuberculosis, BK viremia, and was diagnosed to have contracted HIV infection.

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