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SUBMITTER: Sran H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7128063 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sran Harkiran H Manook Miriam M Chandak Pankaj P Uwechue Raphael R Drage Martin M Loukopoulos Ioannis I Kessaris Nicos N
Case reports in transplantation 20200324
The incidence of incisional hernia after kidney transplantation varies between 1.1% and 3.8%. These are usually repaired electively using polypropylene mesh. We present here a case where a patient presented as an emergency, with a large painful incisional hernia over his kidney transplant, and evidence of local erythema and systemic inflammation. As this could have represented either infection or rejection, the patient was started on antibiotics and subsequently underwent graft nephrectomy and h ...[more]