NDT Plus Advance Access originally published online on May 21, 2008
NDT Plus 2008 1(4):236-238; doi:10.1093/ndtplus/sfn055
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An unusual pulmonary complication of cytomegalovirus infection in a renal transplant recipient
Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, CHU Dupuytren, Limoges, France
Correspondence: Jean-Philippe Rerolle, Service de Transplantation Rénale, CHRU Dupuytren, 2 Avenue Martin Luther King, 87000 Limoges, France. Tel: +33-5-55056464; E-mail: jean-philippe.rerolle@chu-limoges.fr
Key Words: BOOP cytomegalovirus renal transplantation
Received for publication February 19, 2008. Accepted for publication April 22, 2008.
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Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is a clinicopathological entity occurring in the clinical setting of interstitial pneumonia [1]. Occurrence of BOOP in the post-transplant period has been well described in lung [2] or bone marrow transplantation [3] but remains rare in renal transplantation [4]. We report here, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of BOOP secondary to CMV infection in a renal transplant recipient. Intravenous (IV) ganciclovir was effective in eradicating the virus but ineffective in improving the pulmonary status of the patient. After prednisone therapy, the patient's pulmonary symptoms and radiographic findings rapidly improved.
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A 59-year-old woman with end-stage renal failure due to systemic lupus erythematosus was admitted to
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