Hundreds of vasculoproliferative skin lesions in a paediatric renal transplant recipient.
Begoña Udondo González Del TánagoMireia Aguirre MeñicaLaura Zaldumbide DueñasÓscar Martínez ExpósitoMaria R González-HermosaPublished in: Clinical and experimental dermatology (2022)
Bacillary angiomatosis is a vasculoproliferative infectious disease mostly recorded in patients with human immunodeficiency virus and rarely in organ transplant recipients. We report the first case of bacillary angiomatosis due to Bartonella quintana in a paediatric renal transplant patient with skin, lymph node and bone involvement with excellent response to doxycycline. Click here for the corresponding questions to this CME article.
Keyphrases
- human immunodeficiency virus
- lymph node
- soft tissue
- infectious diseases
- hepatitis c virus
- intensive care unit
- antiretroviral therapy
- emergency department
- wound healing
- hiv infected
- hiv aids
- case report
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- hiv positive
- squamous cell carcinoma
- early stage
- bone regeneration
- men who have sex with men