Open AccessPostrenal transplant laryngeal and visceral leishmaniasis - A case report and review of the literature
Author(s) -
Jha P,
Mahesha Vankalakunti,
Vishwanath Siddini,
Kishore Babu,
SH Ballal
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of nephrology/indian journal of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1998-3662
pISSN - 0971-4065
DOI - 10.4103/0971-4065.101259
Subject(s) - visceral leishmaniasis , medicine , pancytopenia , leishmaniasis , sore throat , dermatology , disease , malaria , parasitic disease , surgery , immunology , pathology , bone marrow
Visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) is a disease caused by protozoa of genus Leishmania. It is currently regarded as the second most dreaded parasitic disease, next to malaria. There have been very few case reports of visceral leishmaniasis among the renal transplant recipients. We present a renal allograft recipient with symptoms of fever, sore throat, hoarseness of voice, lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, and pancytopenia after 7 years post-transplant period. On investigating, he was diagnosed to have extensive visceral leishmaniasis with laryngeal involvement. Despite extensive PubMed literature search, we could not find any case report of postrenal transplant visceral and laryngeal leishmaniasis and to the best of our knowledge this is the first case report of this kind.