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Tuberculosis following kidney transplantation: report of paediatric case
Kamel Abidi1, Manel Jellouli1, Yousra Hammi1
1Pediatric Nephrology Department, Charles Nicolle Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia.
Abstract:
Recipients of solid organ transplantation are, because of immunosuppressive therapy, at high risk to develop opportunistic infections including tuberculosis (TB). The incidence, clinical manifestations, and optimal diagnostic tests of this disease in this population have not been adequately defined. In this paper, we report a case of 13 year-old boy who developed pulmonary tuberculosis following a second renal transplantation from a deceased donor. The described case points diagnostic difficulties of the tuberculosis disease which are due to insidious and non specific clinical presentation. Also, the treatment is delicate because interaction between immunosuppressive drugs and antituberculosis drugs.
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