@article {4362,
	title = {Vitiligo following a combined liver-kidney transplant.},
	journal = {Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association//Nephrol Dial Transplant},
	volume = {24},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009},
	pages = {686 - 8},
	publisher = {Bradley,Victoria. Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, University of Sheffield, UK.},
	address = {England},
	abstract = {We report an Afro-Caribbean male who developed vitiligo 10 days following a combined liver-kidney transplant from a Caucasian donor. Neither the donor nor the recipient had any previous history of vitiligo, nor of autoimmunity. The depigmentation gradually resolved by 8 weeks post-transplant with topical corticosteroids and standard maintenance immunosuppression. We propose that the skin depigmentation occurred due to the destruction of melanocytes by donor-derived alloreactive cytotoxic T-lymphocytes or antibody transferred during transplantation. Although vitiligo has been described in patients receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for haematological malignancy, there are no previous reports of vitiligo post-solid organ transplantation.},
	keywords = {*Kidney Transplantation/ae [Adverse Effects], *Liver Transplantation/ae [Adverse Effects], *Vitiligo/et [Etiology], Autoimmunity, Humans, Isoantibodies/me [Metabolism], Kidney Transplantation/im [Immunology], Liver Transplantation/im [Immunology], Male, Melanocytes/im [Immunology], Middle Aged, T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/im [Immunology], T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/tr [Transplantation], Time Factors, Tissue Donors, Vitiligo/im [Immunology]},
	isbn = {1460-2385},
	author = {Bradley, Victoria and Kemp, Elizabeth Helen and Dickinson, Claire and Key, Tim and Gibbs, Paul and Clatworthy, Menna R}
}
