RENAL SALMONELLA-ENTERITIDIS ABSCESS IN A PATIENT WITH SEVERE APLASTIC-ANEMIA AFTER ALLOGENEIC STEM-CELL TRANSPLANTATION

We describe an unusual case of a renal abscess by Salmonella enteritid is in a 32-year-old man with severe aplastic anemia undergoing allogen eic stem cell transplantation, He was receiving immunosuppressive ther apy with CsA and corticosteroids for chronic GVHD. He was not neutrope nic and had no history of enterocolitis or cholelithiasis before the o nset, Four months after the transplantation, he developed an abscess i n the upper pole of his right kidney from which Salmonella enteritidis was isolated in culture. He was successfully treated with a combinati on of percutaneous drainage and washing the cyst through the catheter using piperacillin sodium-containing solution, The possibility of salm onellosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of such p atients.