Appendicitis Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Appendicitis, including details on symptoms, surgery, causes, treatment.

Acute appendicitis occurring immediately post-renal transplant.

Hegde S, Moghal NE, Coulthard MG

Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK.

A 10-yr-old boy who presented with vomiting and abdominal pain 12 days after an uneventful renal transplant had no identifiable transplant-related cause for these symptoms. Four days later a perforated appendix was diagnosed. His case illustrates that common abdominal pathologies may present differently in immunosuppressed, transplanted patients, causing diagnostic delay.

Published 27 February 2006 in Pediatr Transplant, 10(1): 119-20.
Full-text of this article is available online (may require subscription).

© 2004-2008 Appendicitis Research Today. All Rights Reserved.