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Liver transplant recipient with concomitant cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis.

Ozcan D, Seçkin D, Allahverdiyev AM, Weina PJ, Aydin H, Ozçay F, Haberal M

Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. derenozcan@yahoo.com.tr

Diagnosis of leishmaniasis in immunosuppressed patients may be a serious challenge for physicians because of the major clinical and laboratory differences with immunocompetent patients. In immunosuppressed patients, the disease is characterized usually by disseminated visceral involvement, atypical cutaneous lesions and persistent negativity of diagnostic tests. Here, we report an eight-yr-old liver transplant recipient with concomitant cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis in whom the cutaneous lesion led to the diagnosis of systemic involvement.

Published 15 February 2007 in Pediatr Transplant, 11(2): 228-32.
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