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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm824
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Acute Kidney Injury Due to Deferoxamine in a Renal Transplant Patient

Christian Clajus1, Jan U. Becker2, Dirk O. Stichtenoth3, Jessica Wortmann1, Anke Schwarz1 and Jan T. Kielstein1

1 Department of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany 2 Institute for Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany 3 Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Jan T. Kielstein, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany. Tel: +49–511–532 6319; Fax: +49–511–55 23 66; E-mail: Kielstein@yahoo.com

Keywords: chronic kidney disease; deferoxamine; renal biopsy; toxicity

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   Introduction
 
Deferoxamine is an iron-chelating agent, used in the treatment of acute iron intoxication and chronic iron overload secondary to multiple blood transfusions. Moreover it is currently recommended by the K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for bone metabolism and disease in chronic kidney disease (CKD) for treatment in symptomatic aluminium toxicity [1]. Deferoxamine is known to have many adverse effects, some of them potentially fatal, especially infections with siderophilic organisms like mucormycosis [2]. We report a case of acute tubular injury in a renal transplant recipient secondary to treatment with deferoxamine due to iron overload, in the context of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia.



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A 58-year-old Caucasian male, with 21-year status post-cadaver kidney transplantation due to Goodpasture's syndrome, presented with a sudden rise in serum creatinine from 120 µmol/L to 250 µmol/L (Figure 1. . . [Full Text of this Article]


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