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Concomitant Mitochondrial Diabetes and Myopathy Mistook for Complications of Immunosuppressants After Kidney Transplant
We report the case of a 48-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus, sensorineural hearing loss, and severe myopathy without neuropathy after deceased donor kidney transplant. ShehadamitochondrialDNApointmutation at position 3243 (A>G), and mitochondrial diseases such as maternally inherited diabetes deafness or mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodeswere suspected.Diabetes andother symptoms following kidney transplant can often be overlooked as complications of immunosuppressants taken after kidney transplant. However, in patients without a known cause of their symptoms, appropriate exam...
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - July 30, 2021 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Yong Hoon Shin Ae Jin Kim Han Ro Jae Hyun Chang Ji Yong Jung Woo Kyung Chung Hyun Hee Lee Source Type: research

Protracted Febrile Myalgia Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient With Familial Mediterranean Fever.
Abstract Drug-induced toxic myopathy is a complication of familial Mediterranean fever in patients who receive colchicine, especially when combined with cyclosporine. Protracted febrile myalgia syndrome is a severe form of familial Mediterranean fever. A 34-year-old man who had familial Mediterranean fever for > 15 years developed kidney failure because of secondary amyloidosis. He received living-unrelated-donor kidney transplant that functioned normally. He was on colchicine prophylaxis that was continued after transplant, and he received immunosuppression induction with antithymocyte globulin and maintenance...
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - March 19, 2014 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Abdel Halim MM, Al-Otaibi T, Donia F, Gheith O, Asif P, Nawas M, Rashad RH, Said T, Nair P, Nampoory N Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research