Cytomegalovirus Disease After Liver Transplant - a Description of a Treatment Resistant Case. A Case Report and Literature Review

We describe a case of 31-year-old CMV seronegative patient who underwent liver transplant from a CMV seropositive donor with an early acute resistant rejection of the transplanted organ followed by primary cytomegalovirus infection, despite prophylaxis, and its severe organ complications. Routine treatment of acute allograft rejection through increasing the base immunosuppression and then administering methylprednisolone infusions did not yield significant therapeutic effect.
Source: Transplantation Proceedings - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Source Type: research