Acute post-renal kidney graft dysfunction due to cytomegalovirus-positive nephrogenic adenoma-case report and review of the literature

Nicola Hosek; Matteo Montani; Laila-Yasmin Mani

doi:10.3389/fmed.2024.1394028

Acute post-renal kidney graft dysfunction due to cytomegalovirus-positive nephrogenic adenoma-case report and review of the literature

Front Med (Lausanne). 2024 May 29:11:1394028. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1394028. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Nicola Hosek^{1

2}, Matteo Montani³, Laila-Yasmin Mani²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Kantonsspital Graubünden, Chur, Switzerland.
² Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Abstract

Tissue-invasive cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease represents a well-recognized complication after kidney transplantation. However, direct involvement of the urogenital tract and CMV-ureteritis occur less frequently. Nephrogenic adenomas are benign lesions of the urinary tract preferentially reported in kidney transplant recipients. We herein report a second case of a 33-year-old male kidney transplant recipient with acute post-renal allograft dysfunction due to CMV-positive ureteral nephrogenic adenoma. A causal connection might be suspected but remains to be proven.

Keywords: allograft dysfunction; case report; cytomegalovirus; infection; kidney transplantation; nephrogenic adenoma; post-renal; urologic complication.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.