Different Courses of Hepatitis B Reinfection After Renal Transplant: A Case Report

Exp Clin Transplant. 2019 Jun;17(3):408-410. doi: 10.6002/ect.2016.0063. Epub 2017 Feb 7.

Abstract

Hepatitis B surface antigen-positive allografts may be a source of transmission in patients who undergo renal transplantation. Treatment of hepatitis B virus infection with nucleoside/nucleotide analogs in kidney recipients who have hepatitis B virus infection or who have received transplants from hepatitis B surface antigen-positive donors improves long-term patient survival. Antiviral agents are administered as a preemptive or prophylactic therapy at the time of kidney transplantation, rather than as salvage treatment. In this report, we present 2 renal transplant recipients who had hepatitis B virus reinfection or who had developed seroconversion with immunosuppressive treatment. These case reports also demonstrate the unexpectedly different courses of hepatitis B reinfection after kidney transplantation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Hepatitis B / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / surgery*
  • Kidney Transplantation*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnosis*
  • Recurrence