Ulcerative Colitis Following Orthotopic Cardiac Transplantation

Inflammatory bowel disease following a solid organ transplantation while the patient is receiving immunosuppressive therapy is a rare phenomenon. Here we present a 48-year-old man who underwent cardiac transplantation 9 years earlier and was receiving cyclosporine as immunosuppressive therapy since...

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Published in:Middle East journal of digestive diseases 2017-10, Vol.9 (4), p.235-238
Main Authors: Sadeghi, Anahita, Bastani, Pouya, Mohamadnejad, Mehdi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biopsy
Case Report
Case reports
Colon
Crohn's disease
Diarrhea
Endosonography
Family medical history
Fine-Needle
Heart
Heart transplants
Inflammatory bowel disease
Literature reviews
Pancreas
Pathogenesis
Patients
Tuberculosis
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Summary:Inflammatory bowel disease following a solid organ transplantation while the patient is receiving immunosuppressive therapy is a rare phenomenon. Here we present a 48-year-old man who underwent cardiac transplantation 9 years earlier and was receiving cyclosporine as immunosuppressive therapy since then, presenting with complaints of rectorrhagia and diarrhea. In follow-up, he was diagnosed as having ulcerative colitis. We also reviewed the literature for similar cases, which yielded very few similar ones.
ISSN:2008-5230
2008-5249
DOI:10.15171/mejdd.2017.79