Cutaneous manifestations of cytomegalovirus disease in renal transplant recipients: A case series

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-213

  Kaisar, M O ^a   Kirwan, R M ^a   Strutton, G M ^a   Hawley, C M ^a   Mudge, D W ^a   Campbell, S B ^a   Johnson, D W ^a   Isbel, N M ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Cutaneous; Cytomegalovirus; Immunosuppression; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PETECHIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN NODULE; TONGUE ULCER; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASES, VIRAL;

EID: 43949130759     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2007.00273.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Emery VC. Investigation of CMV disease in immunocompromised patients. J Clin Pathol 2001 54 : 84 88.
2. Drago F, Aragone MG, Lugani C, Rebora A. Cytomegalovirus infection in normal and immunocompromised humans. A review. Dermatology 2000 200 : 189 195.
3. van der Meer JT, Drew WL, Bowden RA, et al. Summary of the International Consensus Symposium on Advances in the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prophylaxis and Cytomegalovirus Infection. Antiviral Res 1996 32 : 119 140.
4. Trimarchi H, Casas G, Jordan R, et al. Cytomegalovirus maculopapular eruption in a kidney transplant patient. Transpl Infect Dis 2001 3 : 47 50.
5. Golden MP, Hammer SM, Wanke CA, Albrecht MA. Cytomegalovirus vasculitis. Case reports and review of the literature. Medicine (Baltimore) 1994 73 : 246 255.
6. Choi YL, Kim JA, Jang KT, et al. Characteristics of cutaneous cytomegalovirus infection in non-acquired immune deficiency syndrome, immunocompromised patients. Br J Dermatol 2006 155 : 977 982.
7. Pariser RJ. Histologically specific skin lesions in disseminated cytomegalovirus infection. J Am Acad Dermatol 1983 9 : 937 946.
8. Gandhi MK, Khanna R. Human cytomegalovirus: clinical aspects, immune regulation, and emerging treatments. Lancet Infect Dis 2004 4 : 725 738.
9. Fietze E, Prosch S, Reinke P, et al. Cytomegalovirus infection in transplant patients. The role of tumor necrosis factor. Transplantation 1994 58 : 675 680.
10. Servitje O, Seron D, Ferre I, Carrera M, Pagerols X, Pery J. Quantitative and morphometric analysis of Langerhans cells in non-exposed skin in renal transplant patients. J Cutan Pathol 1991 18 : 106 111.
11. Lee JY. Cytomegalovirus infection involving the skin in immunocompromised hosts. A clinicopathologic study. Am J Clin Pathol 1989 92 : 961 100.
12. Song AT, Abdala E, Bonazzi PR, Bachella T, Machado MC. Does mycophenolate mofetil increase the risk of cytomegalovirus infection in solid organ transplant recipients?-A mini-review. Braz J Infect Dis 2006 10 : 132 138.
13. Chapman JR. Effective strategies to prevent cytomegalovirus disease after renal transplantation. Transplant Proc 2000 32 : 1508 1509.
14. Schnitzler MA, Woodward RS, Brennan DC, Spitznagel EL, Dunagan WC, Bailey TC. The effects of cytomegalovirus serology on graft and recipient survival in living related renal transplantation: implications for donor selection. Surgery 1997 121 : 563 568.
15. Slifkin M, Tempesti P, Poutsiaka DD, Snydman DR. Late and atypical cytomegalovirus disease in solid-organ transplant recipients. Clin Infect Dis 2001 33 : E62 E68.
16. Steininger C, Kundi M, Kletzmayr J, Aberle SW, Popow-Kraupp T. Antibody maturation and viremia after primary cytomegalovirus infection, in immunocompetent patients and kidney-transplant patients. J Infect Dis 2004 190 : 1908 1912.
17. Sia RG, Patel R. New strategies for prevention and therapy of cytomegalovirus infection and disease in solid-organ transplant recipients. Clin Microbiol Rev 2000 13 : 83 121.
18. Mhiri L, Kaabi B, Houimel M, Arrouji Z, Slim A. Comparison of pp65 antigenemia, quantitative PCR and DNA hybrid capture for detection of cytomegalovirus in transplant recipients and AIDS patients. J Virol Methods 2007 143 : 23 28.
19. Snydman DR. Ganciclovir therapy for cytomegalovirus disease associated with renal transplants. Rev Infect Dis 1988 10 (Suppl 3) : S554 S562.