Kaposi's sarcoma in liver transplant recipients on FK506: two case reports
| Autor: | Al Ashgar Hi, Fashir Bm, Rezeig Ma, Hainau B |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Cirrhosis Fulminant Hepatitis C virus Saudi Arabia medicine.disease_cause Gastroenterology Tacrolimus Internal medicine medicine Prevalence Humans Kaposi's sarcoma Sarcoma Kaposi Aged Transplantation business.industry medicine.disease Surgery Liver Transplantation Prednisolone Sarcoma business Immunosuppressive Agents medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Transplantation. 63(10) |
| ISSN: | 0041-1337 |
| Popis: | We report two cases of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) after orthotopic liver transplantation for cirrhosis of the liver related to hepatitis C virus. Both cases were Saudi-born Arabs who were negative for human immunodeficiency virus; one patient was receiving FK506 plus prednisolone, and the other patient was receiving FK506. One patient died of fulminant multicentric KS. The other patient, with lesions confined to the lower limbs, is still alive. These are the first case reports of KS in liver transplant recipients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and, to our knowledge, these are the first case reports of KS in liver transplant recipients on FK506. All previous reports were related to either cyclosporine or conventional immunosuppressive therapy, i.e., azathioprine plus prednisolone. |
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