Gangrenous herpes zoster with multidermatomal involvement in a patient after kidney transplantation.

Abstract

A case report of a patient after renal transplant with severe course of herpes zoster (HZ). HZ represents a common infectious complication of transplant patients and it may have variable manifestations, including ability to disseminate.

Keywords

• Varicella-zoster virus
• shingles
• immunosuppression
• kidney transplantatio