Endometriosis in a Renal Transplant Recipient

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Ammar Abdulbaki Nizar Attallah Rakesh Madhyastha Sudeendra Gupta

Corresponding Author

Nizar Attallah
Department of Nephrology, Medical Subspecialties Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

A B S T R A C T

Hormonal abnormalities that are associated with advanced kidney failure normally reverses after kidney transplantation. This usually helps to normalize menstrual cycles for female patients and helps improve fertility. Post-transplant gynaecological disorders are under-reported in general. We present a patient who developed endometriosis after second kidney transplant. She was treated with surgery followed by hormonal therapy. We discuss the pathophysiology of endometriosis and possible relation to the immune system.

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Article Type

Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 23, Apr 2020
Accepted: Wed 06, May 2020
Published: Wed 13, May 2020

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© 2023 Nizar Attallah. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.TCR.2020.01.07