Gastrointestinal complications after kidney transplantation
Rossella Gioco, Daniela Corona, Burcin Ekser, Lidia Puzzo, Gaetano Inserra, Flávia Cristina Morone Pinto, Chiara Schipa, Francesca Privitera, Pierfrancesco Veroux, Massimiliano Veroux
Abstract
Gastrointestinal complications are common after renal transplantation, and they have a wide clinical spectrum, varying from diarrhoea to post-transplant inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Chronic immunosuppression may increase the risk of post-transplant infection and medication-related injury and may also be responsible for IBD in kidney transplant re-cipients despite immunosuppression. Differentiating the various forms of post-transplant colitis is challenging, since most have similar clinical and histological features. Drug-related colitis are the most frequently encountered colitis after kidney transplantation, particularly those related to the chronic use of mycophenolate mofetil, while de novo IBDs are quite rare. This review will explore colitis after kidney transplantation, with a particular focus on different clinical and histological features, attempting to Gioco R et al. Gastrointestinal complications and transplantation