Rectal Carcinoma 27 Years' Postkidney Transplant in a Chronic Hepatitis B Patient - A Case Report

Here, we report a 72-year-old male with HBsAg-positive status who had a live sibling kidney transplant 27 years ago. He was on minimal maintenance immunosuppressive therapy with prednisolone and microemulsion cyclosporine. He presented with vague abdominal symptoms and was diagnosed to have moderate...

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Veröffentlicht in:Indian journal of transplantation 2022-01, Vol.16 (1), p.135-137
Hauptverfasser: Anupama, Sneha, Parthasarathy, Rajeevalochana, Mathew, Milly, Anupama, Priya, Abraham, Georgi
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Zusammenfassung:Here, we report a 72-year-old male with HBsAg-positive status who had a live sibling kidney transplant 27 years ago. He was on minimal maintenance immunosuppressive therapy with prednisolone and microemulsion cyclosporine. He presented with vague abdominal symptoms and was diagnosed to have moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma of the rectum, which was treated by low anterior resection with loop ileostomy and is currently undergoing radiotherapy.
ISSN:2212-0017
2212-0025
DOI:10.4103/ijot.ijot_128_20