09 - Nefrologia 21-4 - Original Article - Kaposi

Results: Six patients (0.4%) developed Kaposi's sarcoma. Pathological diagnosis was established early after transplantation (mean interval of 23 months). The ratio of male to female patients was 5 to 1 (with no correction for the differential transplant rates between genders) and the mean age at the time of diagnosis was 44 years. All patients had cutaneous or mucosal lesions and visceral involvement occurred in three cases (50%). All received calcineurin inhibitors; five ciclosporin and one tacrolimus. Pretransplant recipient and donor human herpesvirus 8 serology was not performed and serostatus was known in only two after transplantation (one negative and one positive).