Abstract
Antithymocyte globulin is the most widely used lymphocyte-depleting treatment in kidney transplantation. In spite of the frequency of side effects, including anemia and thrombocytopenia, their pathophysiological mechanisms are not clearly established. Here, we report the case of a 21-year-old patient who had a first kidney transplantation and received induction immunosuppressive therapy by thymoglobulin. Immediately after kidney transplantation, he developed a severe hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia with a subsequent perirenal hematoma, which lead to a second surgical procedure and a transfer to the intensive care unit. Our patients' anemia and thrombocytopenia had heteroimmune characteristics, and thymoglobulin therapy was suspected to be the cause, via an interaction with a common Fc-receptor epitope in the different cell lines.
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