Complicated diverticulitis following renal transplantation is rare, and the clinical presentation may be atypical in the immunosuppressed transplant recipient. Patients with polycystic kidney disease experience a significantly higher rate of complicated diverticulitis than do other transplant patients and, therefore, warrant aggressive diagnostic evaluation of even vague abdominal symptoms. In addition, pretransplant screening and prophylactic sigmoid resection in this high-risk population deserve consideration and further study.

These data suggest that prophylactic ganciclovir therapy provides a cost-effective approach toward significantly improving the outcome of renal transplantation in recipients at risk for primary CMV disease.

No abstract

Preemptive ganciclovir therapy provides a cost-effective approach toward significantly improving the outcome of renal transplantation in CMV-seropositive patients treated with ALA.

No abstract