Ulcerative Colitis Following Orthotopic Cardiac Transplantation

Inflammatory bowel disease following a solid organ transplantation while the patient is receiving immunosuppressive therapy is a rare phenomenon. Here we present a 48-year-old man who underwent cardiac transplantation 9 years earlier and was receiving cyclosporine as immunosuppressive therapy since...

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Autores principales: Sadeghi, Anahita, Bastani, Pouya, Mohamadnejad, Mehdi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Association of Gastroerterology and Hepatology 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255582
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/mejdd.2017.79
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Sumario:Inflammatory bowel disease following a solid organ transplantation while the patient is receiving immunosuppressive therapy is a rare phenomenon. Here we present a 48-year-old man who underwent cardiac transplantation 9 years earlier and was receiving cyclosporine as immunosuppressive therapy since then, presenting with complaints of rectorrhagia and diarrhea. In follow-up, he was diagnosed as having ulcerative colitis. We also reviewed the literature for similar cases, which yielded very few similar ones.

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