Widespread form of Majocchi's granuloma in a kidney transplant recipient.
CEN Case Rep
; 2024 May 20.
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ABSTRACT
Kidney transplantation is the encouraged kidney replacement therapy due to providing more prolonged survival with a better quality of life. Unfortunately, kidney transplant recipients are susceptible to infections because of long-term utilization of immunosuppression. Despite dermatophyte infections are generally not life-threatening, the clinical significance has been recently enhanced by an increasing number of immunocompromised patients. We have presented a rare dermatophytosis course, Majocchi's granuloma, that spreads to all extremities during the early post-transplant period. A young kidney transplant recipient was exposed to intensive immunosuppression therapy due to acute rejection in the early period of post-transplantation. After four months, numerous nodular skin lesions were raised on various body parts. An invasive fungal infection was identified in the skin biopsy. Also, Trichophyton rubrum was isolated in the tissue cultures. Consequently, the patient was diagnosed with Majocchi's granuloma. An effectual treatment was attained with an oral terbinafine tablet. Majocchi's granuloma is a distinct form of dermatophytosis characterized by the spreading of infection into the dermis. In this unexpected case, we alerted physicians to opportunistic infections in the kidney transplant recipient.
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CEN Case Rep
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2024
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Turquía
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Japón