A compromised immune system places individuals at a significantly higher risk for many infectious processes. Immunosuppression also increases the risk of malignancy due to the body's decreased ability to perform its normal immunosurveilance and response. It is therefore imperative to have regular thorough evaluations of these patients, as slight abnormalities may be the early signs of infection...

You have accessJournal of UrologyRenal Transplantation & Vascular Surgery II (PD45)1 Sep 2021PD45-04 OUTCOMES OF GENITOURINARY MALIGNANCY IN SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS Song Jiang, Brent Cleveland, and Christopher Warlick JiangSong Jiang More articles by this author , ClevelandBrent Cleveland WarlickChristopher View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1097/JU.0000000000002059.04About...

Experimental and clinical experiences have demonstrated successsful donor engraftment following nonmyeloablative preparative regimens. These less toxic conditioning strategies may be better tolerated with diminished transplant-related morbidity and mortality. Importantly, the intentional induction of mixed chimerism can be established following nonmyeloablative conditioning. This approach has t...

We report the case of a 50-year-old female renal transplant patient who developed disseminated deposits initially diagnosed as metastatic malignancy of unknown primary. She declined a tissue diagnosis but subsequently developed recurrent sepsis and symptomatic unilateral pleural effusion. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from pleural fluid. Following introduction of anti-tuberculous medi...

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is a life-threatening opportunistic infection that occurs in immunocompromised hosts, especially patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). However, this infection is increasing in frequency in other immunosuppressed patients, including organ transplant recipients and those with malignancy who are treated with chemotherapeutic regimens. It ...