Rainey Anthony, Auerbach Jena, Shah Kairav
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Department of Pathology Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Transpl Infect Dis. 2018 Dec;20(6):e12990. doi: 10.1111/tid.12990. Epub 2018 Sep 21.
Solid organ transplant patients are well established to be at risk of herpes simplex virus and varicella zoster virus infection and reactivation. We present a case of a 41-year-old woman with a history of pancreas and renal transplant who presented with what appeared to be disseminated herpes simplex virus or varicella zoster virus induced rash, but who was ultimately diagnosed and treated as linear IgA bullous dermatosis. This case alerts physicians to other non-infectious dermatoses as a cause of vesiculobullous rash in solid organ transplant patients.