Journal article
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy with gastrointestinal disease in a pediatric kidney transplant recipient
Abstract
PML is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system caused by infection with JCV. Several cases of PML in bone marrow and solid organ transplant recipients have been reported in recent years. JCV has been isolated from the gastrointestinal mucosa of immunocompromised patients, but there are no published reports of PML associated with symptomatic gastrointestinal involvement in kidney transplant recipients. We report a case of a …
Authors
Burke MT; Trnka P; Walsh M; Poole L; McTaggart SJ; Burke JR
Journal
Pediatric Transplantation, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. e119–e124
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
August 2013
DOI
10.1111/petr.12107
ISSN
1397-3142