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Posted by Kenneth Youens
6 April 2008 @ 11pm

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Hepatitis in a Lung Transplant Recipient

Clinical Presentation
A 33 year-old woman with cystic fibrosis who underwent bilateral orthotopic lung transplantation twelve weeks ago presented to the emergency department complaining of increasingly severe right upper quadrant pain of one week’s duration. Physical examination was remarkable for moderate jaundice and marked right upper quadrant tenderness to palpation. Liver function testing revealed [...]