Visceral Leishmaniasis After Kidney Transplant: An Unusual Presentation and Mode of Diagnosis

We describe an unusual presentation of leishmaniasis in a kidney allograft recipient with organomegaly and pancytopenia sans fever detected by isolation of amastigotes in duodenal biopsy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of this kind in a kidney transplant recipient.PMID:34775939 | DOI:10.6002/ect.2021.0160
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Source Type: research