Acute appendicitis occurring immediately post-renal transplant.
A 10-yr-old boy who presented with vomiting and abdominal pain 12 days after an uneventful renal transplant had no identifiable transplant-related cause for these symptoms. Four days later a perforated appendix was diagnosed. His case illustrates that common abdominal pathologies may present differently in immunosuppressed, transplanted patients, causing diagnostic delay.
Hegde
Shivaram
S
Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK.
Moghal
Nadeem E
NE
Coulthard
Malcolm G
MG
D000208:Acute Disease; D001062:Appendectomy; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D021782:Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors