Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in transplant recipients: Case report and review of the literature.

Moises A Huaman, Robert Brawley, David Ashkin

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2017 Apr

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Transplant recipients are at increased risk of tuberculosis (TB). We describe a case of pulmonary and vertebral multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) in a kidney transplant patient who required neurosurgical intervention and unfortunately developed fatal nosocomial complications. Thirteen transplant recipients with MDR-TB were previously reported in the literature (one hematopoietic cell transplant, one heart transplant, one lung transplant, one heart-lung transplant, and nine kidney transplant recipients). Extrapulmonary disease, severe treatment complications, and deaths were observed in patients who developed MDR-TB after transplantation. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Moises A Huaman, Robert Brawley, David Ashkin. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in transplant recipients: Case report and review of the literature. Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society. 2017 Apr;19(2)