Kidney Transplantation Patient with Discordant Diagnostic Tests for Chagas Disease: Case Report - Abstract
In Brazil, the Chagas disease is among the parasitic diseases which takes part in screening pre-transplant on the donor and recipient, because in case of positive results it is indicated the anti-parasitical therapy. The immunosuppressive therapy in kidney transplantation patients could take to opportunistic diseases or reactivation of latent infection. In the Chagas disease, is characterized by high parasitaemia and organs involvement as a cardiac or nervous system. It has been reported a case a patient with chronic renal failure secondary to pyelonephritis which undergone kidney transplantation, presented cardiac clinical manifestations of Chagas disease with discordant laboratory results. The patient has received anti-parasitical therapy, with improvement of cardiac condition, but evolved with graft loss.