BRAIN ABSCESSES IN KIDNEY TRANPLANT RECIPIENT: A CASE REPORT

Hương Man Thị Thu, Cường Nguyễn Thế, An Hà Phan Hải

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Infections are common complications in kidney tranplantat recipient. The detection, monitoring, management and treatment of infections in kidney tranplantat recipient is difficult due to the use of post-transplant immunosuppressive drugs, which are more susceptible to opportunistic infections in when symptoms for diagnosis are atypical. Central nervous system infections in kidney tranplantat recipient are a minor complication that clinicians do not think of without neurological signs. Brain abscess is a rare neurological disease that is difficult to diagnose if the patient does not have neurological symptoms. We report this case to illustrate again the difficulties in diagnosing and treating central nervous system infections in general, and brain abscesses in particular in kidney tranplantat recipient.

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