title: Renal allograft abscesses following transplant: case report and literature review.
abstract: Intrarenal and perinephric abscess formations are infrequent infectious complications in kidney allograft recipients. A 37-year-old man who was a victim of mustard gas chemical weapons from the Iran-Iraq war received a live-donor kidney transplant for end-stage renal disease. The posttransplant course was complicated by clinical rejection, which subsided after a 2-week infusion of antithymocyte globulin. One month subsequent to this, the patient presented with renal allograft dysfunction and multiple intrarenal abscesses. Culture from the purulent aspirate of a percutaneously drained renal abscess revealed multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A concomitant acute cytomegalovirus infection was detected based on positive serologic tests. Treatment with intravenous meropenem (3 g/day for 3 weeks) and oral ciprofloxacin was begun, which resulted in the complete resolution of the intrarenal abscesses. To our knowledge, this report represents the first description of pseudomonal renal abscesses in a renal transplant recipient. A review of the relevant literature is presented.
authors.affiliation: Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. shoja.m@gmail.com
authors.forename: Mohammadali M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Shoja
authors.forename: Mohamad R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Ardalan
authors.forename: Jalal
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Etemadi
authors.forename: R Shane
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Tubbs
authors.forename: Mojtaba
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Varshochi
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification*