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Tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case

Recipients of solid organ transplantation are, because of immunosuppressive therapy, at high risk to develop opportunistic infections including tuberculosis (TB). The incidence, clinical manifestations, and optimal diagnostic tests of this disease in this population have not been adequately defined....

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Autores principales: Abidi, Kamel, Jellouli, Manel, Hammi, Yousra, Gargah, Tahar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26966498
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.22.302.7882
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author Abidi, Kamel
Jellouli, Manel
Hammi, Yousra
Gargah, Tahar
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description Recipients of solid organ transplantation are, because of immunosuppressive therapy, at high risk to develop opportunistic infections including tuberculosis (TB). The incidence, clinical manifestations, and optimal diagnostic tests of this disease in this population have not been adequately defined. In this paper, we report a case of 13 year-old boy who developed pulmonary tuberculosis following a second renal transplantation from a deceased donor. The described case points diagnostic difficulties of the tuberculosis disease which are due to insidious and non specific clinical presentation. Also, the treatment is delicate because interaction between immunosuppressive drugs and antituberculosis drugs.
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spelling pubmed-47690462016-03-10 Tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case Abidi, Kamel Jellouli, Manel Hammi, Yousra Gargah, Tahar Pan Afr Med J Case Report Recipients of solid organ transplantation are, because of immunosuppressive therapy, at high risk to develop opportunistic infections including tuberculosis (TB). The incidence, clinical manifestations, and optimal diagnostic tests of this disease in this population have not been adequately defined. In this paper, we report a case of 13 year-old boy who developed pulmonary tuberculosis following a second renal transplantation from a deceased donor. The described case points diagnostic difficulties of the tuberculosis disease which are due to insidious and non specific clinical presentation. Also, the treatment is delicate because interaction between immunosuppressive drugs and antituberculosis drugs. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4769046/ /pubmed/26966498 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.22.302.7882 Text en © Kamel Abidi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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Abidi, Kamel
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Hammi, Yousra
Gargah, Tahar
Tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case
title Tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case
title_full Tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case
title_fullStr Tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case
title_short Tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case
title_sort tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26966498
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.22.302.7882
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