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Retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis in a patient with cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease of Hodgkin’s type: a diagnostic challenge
Toxoplasmosis is a relatively rare complication in renal transplant patients and can pose diagnostic challenges, especially when it manifests as an ocular inflammation. Authors hereby report an unusual case of a 57-year-old male who developed retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis after 15 years of renal tra...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523567/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26239296 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12348-015-0055-y |
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author | Mittal, Ruchi Thumann, Gabrielle Souteyrand, George Kuerten, David Coupland, Sarah E. |
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description | Toxoplasmosis is a relatively rare complication in renal transplant patients and can pose diagnostic challenges, especially when it manifests as an ocular inflammation. Authors hereby report an unusual case of a 57-year-old male who developed retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis after 15 years of renal transplant, the diagnoses of which were challenging as the patient was also a known case of cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) of Hodgkin’s type, which misled the ophthalmologists towards a clinical diagnosis of ocular PTLD. Histopathology examination of the enucleated eye revealed numerous toxoplasmosis cysts within the retina and choroid. No ocular PTLD was observed. |
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spelling | pubmed-45235672015-08-06 Retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis in a patient with cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease of Hodgkin’s type: a diagnostic challenge Mittal, Ruchi Thumann, Gabrielle Souteyrand, George Kuerten, David Coupland, Sarah E. J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect Letter to the Editor Toxoplasmosis is a relatively rare complication in renal transplant patients and can pose diagnostic challenges, especially when it manifests as an ocular inflammation. Authors hereby report an unusual case of a 57-year-old male who developed retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis after 15 years of renal transplant, the diagnoses of which were challenging as the patient was also a known case of cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) of Hodgkin’s type, which misled the ophthalmologists towards a clinical diagnosis of ocular PTLD. Histopathology examination of the enucleated eye revealed numerous toxoplasmosis cysts within the retina and choroid. No ocular PTLD was observed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4523567/ /pubmed/26239296 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12348-015-0055-y Text en © Mittal et al. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Mittal, Ruchi Thumann, Gabrielle Souteyrand, George Kuerten, David Coupland, Sarah E. Retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis in a patient with cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease of Hodgkin’s type: a diagnostic challenge |
title | Retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis in a patient with cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease of Hodgkin’s type: a diagnostic challenge |
title_full | Retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis in a patient with cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease of Hodgkin’s type: a diagnostic challenge |
title_fullStr | Retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis in a patient with cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease of Hodgkin’s type: a diagnostic challenge |
title_full_unstemmed | Retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis in a patient with cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease of Hodgkin’s type: a diagnostic challenge |
title_short | Retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis in a patient with cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease of Hodgkin’s type: a diagnostic challenge |
title_sort | retinochoroidal toxoplasmosis in a patient with cerebral post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease of hodgkin’s type: a diagnostic challenge |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523567/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26239296 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12348-015-0055-y |
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