Madhusudan Vijayan Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Nephrology
Department of Nephrology, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India
Dr Madhusudan Vijayanan Associate professor in Department of Nephrology, Madras Medical Mission university, located in Chennai, India. Currently , Dr Madhusudan Vijayan the author/editors/reviewer in several international journals. He published 10 articles in many journals and the articles are informative and got good citations.
Case Report Open Access
Author(s): Deepu Sabu George, Georgi Abraham, Kuyilan Karai Subramanian, Milly Mathew and Madhusudan Vijayan
Here we report on a 69-year old man with a well-functioning kidney transplant 25 years post-transplant, with active hepatitis B viral replication. The recipient was not inducted and received oral prednisolone, azathioprine and cyclosporine as maintenance therapy. He was detected to be hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive on routine screening in the early period following transplantation and his donor younger brother was also detected to be HbsAg positive. Recipient could not afford anti-viral drugs initially. Hepatitis B viral load was detected to be 2.2 × 1010 viral copies/ml 21 years after transplantation with good allograft function. He took lamivudine 100 mg once a day for the next 6 months, and then discontinued and was followed up with ye... view moreĀ»