Tacrolimus as a Rare Cause of Pericardial Effusion in a Renal Transplant Recipient

Pericardial effusion in a renal transplant recipient represents a diagnostic conundrum with a variety of differential diagnoses. Immunosuppressive medications such as sirolimus have been linked to pericardial effusions in the reported literature. Tacrolimus has been reported to be associated with pl...

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Autores principales: Prashar, Rohini, Stewart, Diana, Moza, Ankush
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29326779
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_6_17
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author Prashar, Rohini
Stewart, Diana
Moza, Ankush
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description Pericardial effusion in a renal transplant recipient represents a diagnostic conundrum with a variety of differential diagnoses. Immunosuppressive medications such as sirolimus have been linked to pericardial effusions in the reported literature. Tacrolimus has been reported to be associated with pleural effusions and ascites. We present a case of a patient with tacrolimus as the likely cause of a recurrent pericardial effusion.
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spelling pubmed-57551972018-01-11 Tacrolimus as a Rare Cause of Pericardial Effusion in a Renal Transplant Recipient Prashar, Rohini Stewart, Diana Moza, Ankush Heart Views Case Report Pericardial effusion in a renal transplant recipient represents a diagnostic conundrum with a variety of differential diagnoses. Immunosuppressive medications such as sirolimus have been linked to pericardial effusions in the reported literature. Tacrolimus has been reported to be associated with pleural effusions and ascites. We present a case of a patient with tacrolimus as the likely cause of a recurrent pericardial effusion. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5755197/ /pubmed/29326779 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_6_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Heart Views http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Tacrolimus as a Rare Cause of Pericardial Effusion in a Renal Transplant Recipient
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title_short Tacrolimus as a Rare Cause of Pericardial Effusion in a Renal Transplant Recipient
title_sort tacrolimus as a rare cause of pericardial effusion in a renal transplant recipient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29326779
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_6_17
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