Different Courses of Hepatitis B Reinfection After Renal Transplant: A Case Report
EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION, cilt.17, sa.3, ss.408-410, 2019 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 17 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2019
- Doi Numarası: 10.6002/ect.2016.0063
- Dergi Adı: EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.408-410
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Hepatitis B surface antigen-positive allografts may be a source of transmission in patients who undergo renal transplantation.Treatment of hepatitis B virus infection with nucleoside/nucleotide analogs in kidney recipients who have hepatitis B virus infection or who have received transplants from hepatitis B surface antigen-positive donors improves long-term patient survival. Antiviral agents are administered as a preemptive or prophylactic therapy at the time of kidney transplantation, rather than as salvage treatment. In this report, we present 2 renal transplant recipients who had hepatitis B virus reinfection or who had developed seroconversion with immunosuppressive treatment. These case reports also demonstrate the unexpectedly different courses of hepatitis B reinfection after kidney transplantation.