Isolated intestinal manifestation of graft-versus-host disease following renal transplantation
Abstract
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a potentially lethal complication commonly occurring after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and non-irradiated blood cell transfusion in patients with underlying immunodeficiency. In solid organ transplantation GVHD however is a rarity. There have been four cases of GVHD after renal transplantation, most of them with fulminant systemic clinical manifestation and mostly associated with blood transfusions. We report the first case of a four HLA-antigen mismatched kidney transplant patient who presented with diarrhea due to intestine-only manifestation of GVHD and was treated successfully with quadruple immunosuppression.
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PDFDOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/crim.v2n1p56
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Case Reports in Internal Medicine
ISSN 2332-7243(Print) ISSN 2332-7251(Online)
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