Transplantation patient-pus formation on the upper right side of hip
Patient: transplantation patient-pus formation on the upper right side of the hip area i am from hyderabad INDIA..my mother was on dialysis because of the kidney shrinkage when she was 36 and had undergone kidney transplantation in 2004 when she was 40....she has now become diabetic after her transplantation.....she also has blood pressure since she was 34.....everything is fine....but after a year of the transplant there has been pus formation above the transplanted area....on the right hip side..at first when it was formed the doctors removed it surgically...the area is not healed yet n the pus oozes out from it even today and there has been 3 ,4 other points in the same area where the pus has made its way to come out....n every month it happens, any point of that area swells due to the pus and after a lot of pain it bursts n the pus oozes out in a day or two...its been 6 years since then that it has not stopped....all the reports are clear....the doctors have seen the ct-scan and the mri reports also....but are unable to figure out the cause...they say that it might be from the native kidney....but are still not sure that it can be fully cured even if the native kidney is removed....she has taken many injections for that and is still taking antibiotics...but it is still the same.....we clean and bandage it and dress it every alternate day with betadine....the pus only seems to be more every day....and there is no sign of it becoming less or stopping....and 1 more thing...during her dialysis her stomach would swell and because of that she had to drain out the water also....and also her menstural cycle is very irregular ....once in a year and sometimes it never occurs..can this be the cause of the pus not stopping....or is it something else.....please reply... Doctor: If the discharge you are mentioning is of infective origin, then it should have responded to antibiotics. I would suggest you to get a pus culuture and sensitivity test done to know the status of the infection if any. That should help her. And for menstrual problems, it could be the added stress causing it and does not have specific relation as such.