Post-renal transplant azathioprine-induced pancreatitis.

Fatal hepatitis B virus infection with fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis following renal transplantation.

After transplantation the patient received maintenance immunosuppression with prednisone 30 mg daily, azathioprine 100 mg daily, and cyclosporin 8 mg/kg/ day. For the first 3 days post-transplantation she

Alloimmune haemolytic anaemia resulting from anti-A and anti-B antibody induced by group O graft in renal transplant recipients.

of the patient and his donor were B Rh(+) and O renal transplantation; tacrolimus Rh(+) respectively. Initial immunosuppressive therapy consisted of prednisone (30 mg/day), tacrolimus (12 mg/day) and azathioprine (1.5 mg/kg/day). The graft functioned initially. In the immediate post

Azathioprine induced pancreatitis in a patient with co-existing autoimmune pancreatitis and hepatitis.

CONTEXT Azathioprine induced pancreatitis usually runs a benign self limited course with rapid disappearance of signs and symptoms upon with drawl of the drug. Azathioprine is used in treating relapses in patients with autoimmune pancreatitis and maintenance of remission in autoimmune hepatitis. Acute pancreatitis complicated by symptomatic pseudocysts requiring drainage is not usually associat...

Drug fever induced by azathioprine in a haemodialysis patient.

Treatment of hepatitis B virus reactivation in a cadaveric renal transplant recipient with entecavir.

INTRODUCTION Risk of reactivation of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and other liver related complications continues to be a major cause of concern in HBV carriers undergoing cadaveric renal transplantation. Antiviral medications have been recommended post renal transplantation in patients who are chronic HBV carriers. CASE REPORT Here we present the case of a 15-year-old girl known to have...