A 36-Year-Old Renal Transplant Recipient Female with Leg Ulcer: A Case Report and Brief Review
Joint Authors
Darjani, Abbas
Azimi, S. Z.
Monfared, Ali
Hojat, Eftekhari
Mesbah, Seyed Alireza
Source
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-6, 6 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-01-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background.
Opportunistic infections are common in organ transplant recipients.
After 6 months of transplantation, patients have the highest risk of opportunistic infections such as cryptococcosis.
Case Presentation.
The report presents the case of a 36-year-old female renal transplant recipient, with complaints of few subcutaneous painful and warm nodules and large, warm, erythematous, nontender plaques on the mildly edematous right leg and ankle.
Incisional biopsy of the subcutaneous nodule over the leg showed panniculitis with small- to medium-sized vasculitis associated with round yeast forms, and culture of the fragments revealed C.
neoformans var.
grubii.
Conclusions.
This article also reviews in brief the treatment of this rare complication.
Reviewing the literature showed that since the cryptococcal cutaneous lesions are often nonspecific, the clinical picture solely is not enough to construct a definite diagnosis and there must be a high clinical suspicion.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Monfared, Ali& Hojat, Eftekhari& Mesbah, Seyed Alireza& Darjani, Abbas& Azimi, S. Z.. 2018. A 36-Year-Old Renal Transplant Recipient Female with Leg Ulcer: A Case Report and Brief Review. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1144554
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Monfared, Ali…[et al.]. A 36-Year-Old Renal Transplant Recipient Female with Leg Ulcer: A Case Report and Brief Review. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1144554
American Medical Association (AMA)
Monfared, Ali& Hojat, Eftekhari& Mesbah, Seyed Alireza& Darjani, Abbas& Azimi, S. Z.. A 36-Year-Old Renal Transplant Recipient Female with Leg Ulcer: A Case Report and Brief Review. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1144554
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1144554