A difficult diagnosis: acute histoplasmosis

A 43-year-old male with deceased donor kidney transplantation presented with fever of unknown etiology and underwent an extensive workup. The diagnosis of histoplasmosis was made after biopsy of a positron emission tomography-positive subcarinal lymph node showed non-caseating granulomas with a posi...

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Autores principales: Singh, Neeraj, Pizanis, Charles, Davis, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2012
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Clinical Cases
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4400496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26069776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfr179
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description A 43-year-old male with deceased donor kidney transplantation presented with fever of unknown etiology and underwent an extensive workup. The diagnosis of histoplasmosis was made after biopsy of a positron emission tomography-positive subcarinal lymph node showed non-caseating granulomas with a positive stain for yeast. The diagnosis was confirmed when fevers remitted with initiation of appropriate anti-fungal therapy.
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spelling pubmed-44004962015-06-11 A difficult diagnosis: acute histoplasmosis Singh, Neeraj Pizanis, Charles Davis, John Clin Kidney J Clinical Cases A 43-year-old male with deceased donor kidney transplantation presented with fever of unknown etiology and underwent an extensive workup. The diagnosis of histoplasmosis was made after biopsy of a positron emission tomography-positive subcarinal lymph node showed non-caseating granulomas with a positive stain for yeast. The diagnosis was confirmed when fevers remitted with initiation of appropriate anti-fungal therapy. Oxford University Press 2012-06 2012-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4400496/ /pubmed/26069776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfr179 Text en © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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