Salmonella Appendicitis in Renal Transplantation

While appendicitis remains one of the commonest surgical diseases, there are relatively few reports following renal transplantation. A 33-year-old man was admitted with diarrhea, fever, and epigastric pain 7 years following a cadaveric renal transplant. CT scanning confirmed a diagnosis of appendici...

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Autores principales: Malone, B., Kleyman, S., Sanni, A., Sumrani, N., Distant, D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24093071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/402735
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author Malone, B.
Kleyman, S.
Sanni, A.
Sumrani, N.
Distant, D.
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description While appendicitis remains one of the commonest surgical diseases, there are relatively few reports following renal transplantation. A 33-year-old man was admitted with diarrhea, fever, and epigastric pain 7 years following a cadaveric renal transplant. CT scanning confirmed a diagnosis of appendicitis which was removed within 24 hours of admission. Histology and blood cultures following surgery confirmed Salmonella type b appendicitis. Patient was safely discharged home 5 days following hospital admission.
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spelling pubmed-37771992013-10-03 Salmonella Appendicitis in Renal Transplantation Malone, B. Kleyman, S. Sanni, A. Sumrani, N. Distant, D. Case Rep Transplant Case Report While appendicitis remains one of the commonest surgical diseases, there are relatively few reports following renal transplantation. A 33-year-old man was admitted with diarrhea, fever, and epigastric pain 7 years following a cadaveric renal transplant. CT scanning confirmed a diagnosis of appendicitis which was removed within 24 hours of admission. Histology and blood cultures following surgery confirmed Salmonella type b appendicitis. Patient was safely discharged home 5 days following hospital admission. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3777199/ /pubmed/24093071 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/402735 Text en Copyright © 2013 B. Malone et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Salmonella Appendicitis in Renal Transplantation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777199/
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