Acute pyelonephritis in a transplant patient with an ileal loop mimicking rejection.
The clinical picture of an enlargement in kidney size, a decrease in renal function and an increase in temperature in a patient with a transplanted kidney into an ileal loop presents a problem in differential diagnosis among rejection, acute tubular necrosis and acute pyelonephritis.
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014547:Urinary Diversion / Q000009:adverse effects