Open AccessAllograft and prostatic involvement in a renal transplant recipient with disseminated tuberculosis
Author(s) -
P Sreejith,
Vivekanand Jha,
Harbir Singh Kohli,
Manish Rathi,
Kanika Gupta,
Sakhuja
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.4103/0971-4065.62097
Subject(s) - medicine , renal transplant , tuberculosis , transplantation , urinary system , kidney transplantation , urology , intensive care medicine , pathology
Tuberculosis is a serious opportunistic infection in renal transplant recipients and is disseminated in nature in one-third of patients. Genito urinary tuberculosis is rare in renal transplant recipients. We report a patient presenting 5 years after renal transplantation with disseminated tuberculosis and allograft and prostatic involvement.