Geramizadeh Bita, Nikeghbalian Saman, Janghorban Parisa, Malekhosseini Seyed Ali
Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shiraz, IR Iran ; Department of Pathology, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shiraz, IR Iran.
Hepat Mon. 2013 May 21;13(5):e6691. doi: 10.5812/hepatmon.6691. Print 2013 May.
Recipients of liver transplantation are prone to different types of infections such as tuberculosis (TB).
Herein we report a 59-year-old man with liver transplantation due to HBV cirrhosis who developed isolated hepatic TB, 18 months after OLT (orthotropic liver transplantation). He has been successfully treated with anti-TB regimen and now after 12 months he is completely symptom-free.
Organ transplantation and treatment of transplanted patients with immunosuppressive drugs would prone them to various unusual infections. One of these is unusual primary involvement of liver by tuberculosis which has been extremely rare in the previous reports.
肝移植受者易发生不同类型的感染,如结核病(TB)。
在此,我们报告一名59岁因乙肝肝硬化接受肝移植的男性患者,在原位肝移植(OLT)18个月后发生孤立性肝结核。他通过抗结核方案得到成功治疗,现在12个月后已完全无症状。
器官移植以及用免疫抑制药物治疗移植患者会使他们易发生各种不寻常的感染。其中之一是肝脏罕见地被结核原发累及,这在既往报告中极为罕见。