[Tuberculosis after kidney transplantation]

The authors deal with the problem of tuberculosis in patients after transplantation of the kidney. They give an account of eight cases of the disease in 647 patients where during the last 22 years transplantations where performed in the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine. The lungs were affected in six patients, incl. three with miliary dissemination affecting also other organs incl. the graft. In one instance the patient's own kidney was affected and once the talar joint. The authors emphasize this atypical course of the disease and the necessity to search for BK in patients where the febrile condition does not recede after corresponding antibiotic treatment. In case of early antituberculotic treatment the prognosis is on the whole favourable.