A Case Series of Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis in Renal Transplant Patients
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 tra...
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| author | Pedro Azevedo Cristina Freitas Hugo Silva Pedro Aguiar Pedro Farrajota Manuela Almeida Sofia Pedroso La Salete Martins Leonídio Dias José Ramón Vizcaíno António Castro Henriques António Cabrita |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-daa56f02c3f94a49ac8283d128e6971c2025-02-03T01:09:50ZengWileyCase Reports in Nephrology2090-66412090-665X2013-01-01201310.1155/2013/213273213273A Case Series of Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis in Renal Transplant PatientsPedro Azevedo0Cristina Freitas1Hugo Silva2Pedro Aguiar3Pedro Farrajota4Manuela Almeida5Sofia Pedroso6La Salete Martins7Leonídio Dias8José Ramón Vizcaíno9António Castro Henriques10António Cabrita11Department of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Pathology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Pathology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalDepartment of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Santo António Hospital, 4099-001 Porto, PortugalTuberculosis 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/213273 |
| spellingShingle | Pedro Azevedo Cristina Freitas Hugo Silva Pedro Aguiar Pedro Farrajota Manuela Almeida Sofia Pedroso La Salete Martins Leonídio Dias José Ramón Vizcaíno António Castro Henriques António Cabrita A Case Series of Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis in Renal Transplant Patients Case Reports in Nephrology |
| title | A Case Series of Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis in Renal Transplant Patients |
| title_full | A Case Series of Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis in Renal Transplant Patients |
| title_fullStr | A Case Series of Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis in Renal Transplant Patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Case Series of Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis in Renal Transplant Patients |
| title_short | A Case Series of Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis in Renal Transplant Patients |
| title_sort | case series of gastrointestinal tuberculosis in renal transplant patients |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/213273 |
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