Skin, subcutaneous tissue, and allograft infection with Mycobacterium fortuitum in a renal transplant recipient.

Different types of skin disorders are prevalent among kidney transplant recipients. The development of nodular skin lesions in these patients would usually raise a suspicion of Kaposi's sarcoma. We report a patient, who presented with nodular skin lesions one year post transplant, but the biopsy revealed a rare diagnosis - Mycobacterium fortuitum (M.

Effectiveness of a separate training center for peritoneal dialysis patients.

The aim of this study is to analyze the patients' database of the Baxter's Training Peritoneal Dialysis Program (BTPDP) adopted at the Baxter Renal Education Center (BREC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in order to determine its effectiveness in the management, compliance, and outcome of the trained peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. The study analyzes the database of the BTPDP, which includes the demographic data, duration of follow-up, complications, and outcome of the patients trained on PD between September 2003 and November 2007. Records of 376 patients with a mean age of 46.

Families with chronic renal diseases: one center experience.

Occurrence of chronic renal disease in more than one member of a family is not uncommon. Here, we studied 29 families with such status. Genetic and heredofamilial causes were evaluated.