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Atlas of Dermatologic Diseases in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

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Solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) are a population at high risk for cutaneous adverse events. Infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality among this group. Viral and fungal diseases including cutaneous manifestations are far more common than bacterial ones. Moreover, viral skin infections are the most frequent complications which decrease the quality of life in patients after transplantation.

This chapter outlines the importance of quick recognition, and suitable treatment, of cutaneous viral infections among this group. Emphasis will be put on epidemiology, histopathology, clinical manifestation, and the treatment of the most frequent viral diseases. Moreover, we have tried to distinguish the characteristic cutaneous features of these infections among the SOTR population. On the one hand, we describe diseases which result from reactivation of a previous infection, like the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) and other frequent infections such as human papilloma virus (HPV), herpes simplex virus (HSV), molluscum contagiosum (MC), trichodysplasia spinulosa (TS), and acquired epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EDV).

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  1. Medicine, University Clinical Centre in Gdansk, Gdansk, Pomeranian, Poland

    Karolina Cekala

  2. Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, University Hospital in Gdansk, Gdansk Medical University, Gdansk, Pomeranian, Poland

    Alicja Debska-Slizien

  3. Dermatology Outpatient Clinic, Copernicus Hospital, Gdansk, Pomeranian, Poland

    Beata Imko-Walczuk

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Jane Tomimori

  2. Department of Dermatology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Walmar Roncalli Pereira de Oliveira

  3. Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Carla Ferrándiz-Pulido

  4. Department of Dermatology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Marilia Marufuji Ogawa

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Cekala, K., Debska-Slizien, A., Imko-Walczuk, B. (2022). Viral Diseases. In: Tomimori, J., Oliveira, W.R.P.d., Ferrándiz-Pulido, C., Ogawa, M.M. (eds) Atlas of Dermatologic Diseases in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13335-0_4

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