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Visceral leishmaniasis: a rare cause of post-transplant fever and pancytopenia.

Department of Nephrology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 08/2002; 50:979-80. pp.979-80
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT Despite the endemic distribution of visceral leishmaniasis in certain parts of our country, there are only a few reports of this infection in renal transplant recipients. We report one renal transplant recipient from non-endemic area with visceral leishmaniasis and graft dysfunction that responded to treatment with stibogluconate. The infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a febrile transplant recipient with pancytopenia and allograft dysfunction.

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Keywords

allograft dysfunction
 
certain parts
 
differential diagnosis
 
endemic distribution
 
febrile transplant recipient
 
graft dysfunction
 
non-endemic area
 
pancytopenia
 
renal transplant recipient
 
renal transplant recipients