MULTIVISCERAL KAPOSIS-SARCOMA AND ENCRUST ED PYELITIS AFTER RENAL-TRANSPLANTATION

Citation
A. Foulet et al., MULTIVISCERAL KAPOSIS-SARCOMA AND ENCRUST ED PYELITIS AFTER RENAL-TRANSPLANTATION, Annales de pathologie, 16(6), 1996, pp. 453-456
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology
Journal title
ISSN journal
02426498
Volume
16
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
453 - 456
Database
ISI
SICI code
0242-6498(1996)16:6<453:MKAEEP>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Immunosuppression therapy carries inherent risks involving the occurre nce of infections and neoplasms. Whereas therapeutic advancement have reduced its frequency, encrusted pyelitis reappears in kidney-transpla nted patients and may lead to detransplantation. It is related to chro nic urological infections and not inevitably Savvied by endoscopic exp lorations. Kaposi's sarcoma is rite third cause of tumor in renal-tran splanted patients. It is rarely multivisceral and develops exceptional ly in the transplant. We report the case of a 60 year-old woman who de veloped an encrusted pyelitis and a Kaposi's sarcoma in a kidney which was transplanted 14 months earlier