Hemorrhagic cystitis secondary to adenovirus infection in a kidney transplant recipient: case report.

Increasingly potent immunosuppressive agents have reduced the incidence of rejection of transplanted organs while increasing patient susceptibility to opportunistic infections and cancer. Adenoviruses are increasingly recognized as contributors to morbidity and mortality in stem cell and solid-organ transplant recipients. Clinical findings range from asymptomatic viremia to respiratory and gastrointestinal disease, hemorrhagic cystitis, and severe disseminated illness. We describe the first case in Chile of hemorrhagic adenovirus cystitis after renal transplantation in an adult.