Late Development of Gi'tomegalovirus (CMV) Infection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient

ŞAHİN G., YALÇIN A. U.

TURKISH NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS AND TRANSPLANTATION JOURNAL, cilt.16, sa.4, ss.198-200, 2007 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2007
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS AND TRANSPLANTATION JOURNAL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.198-200
  • Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Although more kidney transplant recipients are living longer with functioning grafts, exposure to pathogens while in a sustained immunosuppressive state places these patients at risk for a number of late-term infections. Risk for infections depends on the dose, duration, and timing of the immunosuppressant regimen, rather than the effects of a single immunosuppressant agent. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection commonly arises 1 to 4 months after transplantation. Here we report a kidney transplant recipient, in the fifth year of transplantation, developed a CMV pneumonia.