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Late infection of an embolized renal graft presented as buttock cellulitis
Author(s) -
Pérez Rodríguez M.T.,
Sopeña B.,
Lueiro F.,
MartínezVázquez C.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
transplant infectious disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1399-3062
pISSN - 1398-2273
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00467.x
Subject(s) - medicine , complication , embolization , surgery , cellulitis , immunosuppression , hemodialysis , kidney
M.T. Pérez Rodríguez, B. Sopeña, F. Lueiro, C. Martínez‐Vázquez. Late infection of an embolized renal graft presented as buttock cellulitis.
Transpl Infect Dis 2010: 12: 161–163. All rights reserved Abstract: Graft intolerance syndrome (GIS) is a common complication developed in failed kidney allografts left in situ when the patients returned to hemodialysis. GIS usually develops within the first 6 months after immunosuppression has been withdrawn. When medical treatment has failed, transplantectomy is the conventional therapy. Nevertheless, in recent years, transvascular ethanol embolization has been reported as an effective, safe, and less invasive technique than transplantectomy for the management of patients with GIS. Although infrequent, the most severe complication is infection of the graft or surrounding tissues, which usually appears in the first weeks after the procedure. We present the first case of late infection of an embolized renal graft, more than 2 years after embolization.