Kidney transplant (KT) recipients have an increased risk for urothelial carcinoma. A role for JC virus (JCV) in human cancers is not yet proved but there is an increasingly reported association between BK virus (BKV) nephropathy and renourinary neoplasms. We report a KT recipient who developed a high-grade urothelial carcinoma 5 years after a diagnosis of JCV nephropathy and 9 years after kidney transplantation...
OBJECTIVES Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the arrhythmia most often observed in elderly patients and is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in this age group. Anticoagulation to reduce the thromboembolic risk is an essential part of the approach of this pathology. In this context, our aim is to assess the prevalence of AF and its treatment in very old patients admitted to our medicine ward. MATERIAL AND ...