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1: Transpl Infect Dis. 2005 Jun;7(2):86-8.Click here to read Links

A renal transplant patient with intractable hiccups and review of the literature.

Rosenberger J, Veseliny E, Bena L, Roland R.

Transplantation Department, Faculty Hospital of L. Pasteur, Kosice, Slovak Republic. rosenberger_jaro@hotmail.com

Intractable hiccups in transplanted patients may be caused by various medical conditions including infections. We report a case of a 44-year-old man who suffered from intractable hiccups after cadaveric kidney transplantation. We identified 3 different hiccup periods with different causes: 1) steroid and anesthetics use, 2) severe ulcerose herpetic and mycotic esophagitis, and 3) pleuropneumonia caused by nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis and pulmonary abscess requiring thoracic surgery.

PMID: 16150097 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]