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Acute kidney injury caused by systemic Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection after successful kidney transplantation
Author(s) -
Harada Hiroshi,
Mitsuke Akihiko,
Fukuzawa Nobuyuki,
Kodama Fumihiro,
Hirose Takayuki,
Tanaka Toshiaki,
Imamoto Teppei,
Tanaka Hiroshi
Publication year - 2018
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/tid.12987
Subject(s) - medicine , urethritis , neisseria gonorrhoeae , sepsis , kidney transplantation , ceftriaxone , acute kidney injury , kidney , urethra , gonorrhea , hemodialysis , transplantation , sexual function , surgery , urology , immunology , antibiotics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is one of the microbes that can causes male urethritis. This microbe is most likely to be transmitted via sexual intercourse. In men, the representative infection sites are the urethra, and oral mucosa but gonococcemia is rere. We present a case of gonococcemia in a 47‐year‐old male successful kidney recipient. He temporarily lost his graft function due to acute kidney injury followed by sepsis; however, short‐course intermittent hemodialysis and long‐term intensive ceftriaxone inoculation saved his life and his graft function.