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01-09-2013 | Case Report

Case report: imaging features in a renal transplant patient with calcineurin inhibitor-induced pain syndrome (CIPS)

Authors: Russell W. Chapin, Elizabeth Chua, Jennifer Simmons, Martin Bunke

Published in: Skeletal Radiology | Issue 9/2013

Abstract

Post-transplant distal limb bone marrow edema syndrome or calcineurin inhibitor-induced pain syndrome (CIPS) is generally a self-limiting but debilitating acute pain syndrome that has been reported in 2–14 % of renal transplant recipients. The disease is extensively described in the transplant literature in patients receiving the calcineurin inhibitors cyclosporine and tacrolimus. We present a case of CIPS arising in a patient 73 days after renal allograft, review the imaging findings, and discuss proposed etiologies and differential diagnoses. To the authors’ knowledge, CIPS has not been characterized as a distinct entity in the radiology literature.

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Title: Case report: imaging features in a renal transplant patient with calcineurin inhibitor-induced pain syndrome (CIPS)
Authors: Russell W. Chapin
Elizabeth Chua
Jennifer Simmons
Martin Bunke
Publication date: 01-09-2013
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Skeletal Radiology / Issue 9/2013
Print ISSN: 0364-2348
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-013-1616-5

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