A 43-year-old man had severe circumocular exanthema associated with chronic rejection 10 years after receiving a kidney transplant to treat end-stage renal failure. After the renal allograft was extracted, the exanthema diminished rapidly without any treatment. Donor-reactive immune cells seem to have cross-reacted with unknown pathogens on the skin and contributed to inflammation.
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