title: Resection of a pulmonary lesion after liver transplantation: report of a case.
abstract: A 44-year-old Chinese-Indonesian man who underwent living-donor liver transplantation with a right liver graft presented 4 months later with a cough and fever. Chest X-ray showed a nodular shadow in the apex of the left lung, which was diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis. After 1 week of antituberculous chemotherapy, we performed a left upper lobectomy. Postoperative antituberculous chemotherapy, consisting of isoniazid (300 mg/day) and rifampin (450 mg/day), was continued for 4 months, and there has been no sign of recurrence for 1 year since the thoracotomy. This case supports the feasibility of surgery for localized pulmonary tuberculosis soon after transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan.
authors.forename: Nobuhisa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akamatsu
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: Yoji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kishi
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Niiya
authors.forename: Junichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaneko
authors.forename: Masatoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makuuchi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000601:surgery*