Abdominal Imaging - Case Report

CT findings in fatal primary intestinal tuberculosis in a liver transplant recipient

  • Nilgün Işıksalan Özbülbül
  • Mustafa Özdemir
  • Nesrin Turhan

Received Date: 13.03.2007 Accepted Date: 05.09.2007 Diagn Interv Radiol 2008;14(4):221-224

Tuberculosis is a rare post-transplant infection that can present an atypical and misleading clinical picture. The possibility of tuberculosis must be taken into account when a transplant patient has fever and severe abdominal complaints with no clear evidence of another infection. We report a patient with primary intestinal tuberculosis, which was not accompanied by pulmonary, peritoneal, or solid-organ involvement. To our knowledge, this is the only reported case to date of intestinal tuberculosis post liver transplantation.

Keywords: tuberculosis, gastrointestinal • liver transplantation • computed tomography