Post-transplant Flashcards
(4 cards)
1
Q
Pancytopenia, hepatitis, pneumonitis, esophagitis, colitis, or adrenalitis in solid-organ transplant recipients, organ rejection, secondary infection, and an increased risk for graft loss and death
A
CMV
- ppx = ganciclovir
2
Q
Several years after transplantation; fever, pancytopenia, generalized lymphadenopathy, and hepatosplenomegaly
A
EBV
3
Q
oral or genital ulces
A
HSV
4
Q
kidney allograft dysfunction or loss; gradual, asymptomatic increase in the serum creatinine level with tubulointerstitial nephritis or, less commonly, with ureteral stenosis
- tx?
A
Polyoma BK virus
- tx is to reduce immunosuppression