Sreejith P, Kuthe S, Jha V, Kohli H S, Rathi M, Gupta K L, Sakhuja V
Department of Nephrology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012, India.
Indian J Nephrol. 2010 Jul;20(3):156-8. doi: 10.4103/0971-4065.70849.
Tuberculosis is a common cause of pericarditis in the developing countries and constrictive pericarditis is a serious sequel. There are only three cases of constrictive pericarditis in kidney transplant recipients previously reported in literature. Here, we report a case of constrictive pericarditis developing in a renal transplant recipient while on antituberculous therapy for tuberculous pleural effusion.