[HTLV infection after renal transplant].
OBJECTIVE
We report the first two cases of HTLV-1 infection after a renal transplant appearing in our country and their outcomes.


METHODS
We describe the cases of two transplant patients who developed subacute myelopathy, known as Tropical Spastic Paraparesis, secondary to HTLV-1 infection and review their evolution.


RESULTS
Both cases show a great disability today, being one of them dependent for his daily life.


CONCLUSIONS
We believe that HTLV-1 detection is necessary in all donors by indirect (ELISA) or direct (PCR) techniques due to its symptomless evolution in the transplant patient on the one hand, and the growing immigrant population in our country which associates an increase in the number of asymptomatic carriers of the virus.
Villafruela Mateos
Ainara
A
Servicio de Urología, Hospital de Cruces, Baracaldo, Vizcaya, España.
Arruza Echevarría
Antón
A
Martín Bazaco
Jesús
J
Azurmendi Arin
Igor
I
Zabala Eugurrola
José Antonio
JA
Pertusa Peña
Carlos
C
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015493:Paraparesis, Tropical Spastic / Q000209:etiology*