Acute pancreatitis with cytomegalovirus infection in a kidney transplant recipient: A case report

Acute pancreatitis with cytomegalovirus infection in a kidney transplant recipient: A case report: Zeinab Mohseni Afshar, Arefeh Babazadeh, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Sima Golmohammadi



Journal of Acute Disease 2019 8(1):43-44



Cytomegalovirus (CMV) can cause significant inflammation. Besides, it is an important cause of pancreatitis in organ transplantations. We report a case of CMV pancreatitis in a 48-year-old male kidney transplant recipient who was admitted with elevated amylase (3 337 U/L) and lipase (1 160 U/L) enzymes, and abdominal pain. CMV infection was tested by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and the result was positive. CMV viremia was successfully cleared with ganciclovir. Then the absence of some of more noticeable clinical symptoms of pancreatitis may not be a decisive reason not to rule out the disease in transplanted cases.