ABSTRACT

It was aimed to identify skin findings those were seen in patients who undergone renal transplantation.

Patients who have been followed in Erciyes University Nephrology Hospital renal transplantation outpatient clinic were included in the study. They were evaluated for dermatologic findings during routine controls. Age, gender, transplantation date, identity of organ donor, history of medications, dermatological history and dermatological findings during examination were recorded. Biopsy was performed when needed.

In total 94 patients, 25 female (26.6%) and 69 male (73.4%), were recruited to the study. Mean age was 36±10 years. The most frequent skin finding was drug-related acne (n=20). Most common infectious disease was verruca (n=17). There were viral disease other than verruca such as herpes zoster (n=3), superficial mycosis such as onychomycosis (n=5), tinea versicolor, tinea pedis and bacterial skin disease (n=2), and paronychia (n=1) and pre-malign lesions such as actinic cheilitis and bowenoid papulosis. Besides these, stria (n=3), kserosis (n=2), cornu cutaneum, café-au-lait spots, sebaceous hyperplasia and seborrheic dermatitis, skin tag, hypertrichosis, unguis incarinatus and calcinosis were other skin findings those were seen. No malign skin lesion was observed in any of patients.

Miscellaneous skin lesions should develop in patients those undergone renal transplantation due to long-term utilization of various immunosuppressive drugs.