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SKIN DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
Author(s) -
Dymock R. B.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1979.tb00164.x
Subject(s) - medicine , immunosuppression , renal transplant , transplantation , dermatology , chronic renal failure , skin infection , disease , pathology , surgery , staphylococcus aureus , biology , bacteria , genetics
S ummary A retrospective analysis was undertaken of skin lesions occurring in 100 renal transplant patients. Post‐transplant problems were largely iatrogenic and the result of immunosuppression. Prominent among these findings were Cushing's syndrome (56%), and a wide range of skin and mucosal infectious including moniliasis (67%). Staphylococcal infection (45%), and herpes simplex (39%). Many of these lesions were more persistent and widespread than usual, of bizarre appearance, or frankly opportunistic. Five post‐transplant patients developed multiple squamous malignancies. Other skin changes appeared to be associated with chronic renal failure, prolonged haemodialysis, drug reactions, or cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease with renal involvement.