[Rapidly progressing streptococcal sepsis in a patient after transplantation of a cadaver kidney]

The authors submit the case-history of an adverse rapidly progressing phlegmon and septicaemia in a patient after transplantation of a cadaverous kidney with a functional graft. The patient was admitted repeatedly to the Transplantation Centre of the Urological Clinic, Faculty Hospital Hradec Králové with acute cellular rejection for corticosteroid treatment.