Extensive Esophageal Ulceration in a Renal Transplant Patient
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A 49 year-old male patient recurred to the emerency department complaining of anorexia, nausea, cough ith mucopurulent sputum and dyspnea for 5 days. He ad a history of poorly controlled type 1 diabetes melitus with retinopathy, neuropathy and renal transplant 2 years before) for end-stage renal failure. The patient as taking immunosuppressive therapy with prednisolone 20 mg/day), tacrolimus (2 mg/day) and mycophenolic acid
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