Parvovirus B19

Record number:

594

Adverse Occurrence type:

MPHO Type:

Time to detection:

8 weeks

Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:

Eight weeks after transplantation, recipient presented with fever, polyarthralgia, pancytopenia, and allograft dysfunction.

Demonstration of imputability or root cause:

Proven: Parvovirus DNA documented in donor kidney tissue biopsy

Keywords:

References:

Donor-transmitted parvovirus infection in a kidney transplant recipient presenting as pancytopenia and allograft dysfunction

Parvovirus-B19-associated complications in renal transplant recipients

Persistence of human parvovirus B19 in multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells expressing the erythrocyte P antigen: implications for transplantation