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Acute renal failure and myalgia in a transplant patient.

Najafian B, Franklin DB, Fogo AB

Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2561, USA.

A 64-yr-old man with kidney transplant for ESRD as a result of diabetic nephropathy presented with acute renal failure, weakness, myalgia, and pigmented urine. His medications included mycophenolate, cyclosporine, prednisone, furosemide, diltiazem, aspirin, simvastatin, an angiotensin receptor blocker, and insulin. A renal biopsy was performed. Pathologic findings and differential diagnosis are discussed, and the literature is reviewed.

Published 26 October 2007 in J Am Soc Nephrol, 18(11): 2870-4.
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