A 40-year-old woman on chronic hemodialysis had been diagnosed as having lepromatous leprosy at the age of 17 and treated for 15 years with sulfones. She remained clinically free of leprosy during 19 months of hemodialysis and then underwent successful renal transplantation. Fourteen months after surgery, recurrence of leprosy was observed. In spite of immunosuppression, the skin lesions healed with sulfone treatment. Renal transplantation is a useful treatment in patients with leprosy and chronic renal failure.
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3900248?dopt=Abstract DA - 1985 Sep IS - 3 J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis. LA - eng N2 -A 40-year-old woman on chronic hemodialysis had been diagnosed as having lepromatous leprosy at the age of 17 and treated for 15 years with sulfones. She remained clinically free of leprosy during 19 months of hemodialysis and then underwent successful renal transplantation. Fourteen months after surgery, recurrence of leprosy was observed. In spite of immunosuppression, the skin lesions healed with sulfone treatment. Renal transplantation is a useful treatment in patients with leprosy and chronic renal failure.
PY - 1985 SP - 410 EP - 1 T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association TI - Successful kidney transplantation in leprosy and transitory recurrence of the disease. VL - 53 SN - 0148-916X ER -