KAPOSI'S SARCOMA IN LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS ON FK506Two Case Reports
作者:
Rezeig Mohammed,
Fashir1 Baroudi,
Hainau Bo,
Al Ashgar Hamad,
期刊:
Transplantation
(OVID Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 63,
issue 10
页码: 15201521-15201521
ISSN:0041-1337
年代: 1997
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
We report two cases of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) after orthotopic liver transplantation for cirrhosis of the liver related to hepatitis C virus. Both cases were Saudi-born Arabs who were negative for human immunodeficiency virus; one patient was receiving FK506 plus prednisolone, and the other patient was receiving FK506. One patient died of fulminant multicentric KS. The other patient, with lesions confined to the lower limbs, is still alive. These are the first case reports of KS in liver transplant recipients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and, to our knowledge, these are the first case reports of KS in liver transplant recipients on FK506. All previous reports were related to either cyclosporine or conventional immunosuppressive therapy, i.e., azathioprine plus prednisolone.
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