MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTION AFTER LIVER-TRANSPLANTATION

Tuberculosis occurred in 5 (1.2%) of 462 liver transplant recipients. De novo infection was assumed in 4 patients and a recurrent infection in 1. The clinical courses varied, from asymptomatic open lung tubercu losis to disseminated disease with cerebral tuberculoma and convulsion s. Four patients survived with anti-tuberculous triple-drug therapy. V ery few cases of tuberculosis after liver transplantation have been re ported (4 patients in the medical literature and 5 patients in this pa per). However, the incidence, course of infection, and outcome seem to be similar to those of tuberculosis in renal transplant recipients, a pproximately 150 cases of which are known.