NDT Advance Access originally published online on October 12, 2005
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(2):530-531; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi195
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Case Report
Influenza vaccine-induced rhabdomyolysis leading to acute renal transplant dysfunction
1 Department of Nephrology, 2 Department of Cellular Pathology and 3 Department of Neurosciences, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK
Correspondence and offprint requests to: K. S. Raman, Department of Nephrology, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK. Email: ramankris1@yahoo.com; ramankrish@hotmail.com
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Rhabdomyolysis is a well-known cause of renal failure and is commonly associated with drugs, toxins and infections. There has been one reported case of rhabdomyolysis attributed to influenza vaccine causing renal failure in native kidneys.
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A 57-year-old Caucasian man was diagnosed to have focal segmental glomerlosclerosis (FSGS) in 1995. He eventually underwent a cadaveric renal transplantation in February 2002 and because this was complicated by delayed graft function, his creatinine plateaued at a
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