Scedosporiosis in a Combined Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipient: A Case Report of Possible Transmission from a Near-Drowning Donor

Scedosporium spp. are saprobic fungi that cause serious infections in immunocompromised hosts and in near-drowning victims. Solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of scedosporiosis as they require aggressive immunosuppression to prevent allograft rejection. We present a case of diss...

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Autores principales: Leek, Rachael, Aldag, Erika, Nadeem, Iram, Gunabushanam, Vikraman, Sahajpal, Ajay, Kramer, David J., Walsh, Thomas J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5187490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28070441
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1879529
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author Leek, Rachael
Aldag, Erika
Nadeem, Iram
Gunabushanam, Vikraman
Sahajpal, Ajay
Kramer, David J.
Walsh, Thomas J.
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description Scedosporium spp. are saprobic fungi that cause serious infections in immunocompromised hosts and in near-drowning victims. Solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of scedosporiosis as they require aggressive immunosuppression to prevent allograft rejection. We present a case of disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum infection occurring in the recipient of a combined kidney and liver transplantation whose organs were donated by a near-drowning victim and review the literature of scedosporiosis in solid organ transplantation.
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spelling pubmed-51874902017-01-09 Scedosporiosis in a Combined Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipient: A Case Report of Possible Transmission from a Near-Drowning Donor Leek, Rachael Aldag, Erika Nadeem, Iram Gunabushanam, Vikraman Sahajpal, Ajay Kramer, David J. Walsh, Thomas J. Case Rep Transplant Case Report Scedosporium spp. are saprobic fungi that cause serious infections in immunocompromised hosts and in near-drowning victims. Solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of scedosporiosis as they require aggressive immunosuppression to prevent allograft rejection. We present a case of disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum infection occurring in the recipient of a combined kidney and liver transplantation whose organs were donated by a near-drowning victim and review the literature of scedosporiosis in solid organ transplantation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5187490/ /pubmed/28070441 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1879529 Text en Copyright © 2016 Rachael Leek et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Scedosporiosis in a Combined Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipient: A Case Report of Possible Transmission from a Near-Drowning Donor
title Scedosporiosis in a Combined Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipient: A Case Report of Possible Transmission from a Near-Drowning Donor
title_full Scedosporiosis in a Combined Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipient: A Case Report of Possible Transmission from a Near-Drowning Donor
title_fullStr Scedosporiosis in a Combined Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipient: A Case Report of Possible Transmission from a Near-Drowning Donor
title_full_unstemmed Scedosporiosis in a Combined Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipient: A Case Report of Possible Transmission from a Near-Drowning Donor
title_short Scedosporiosis in a Combined Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipient: A Case Report of Possible Transmission from a Near-Drowning Donor
title_sort scedosporiosis in a combined kidney and liver transplant recipient: a case report of possible transmission from a near-drowning donor
topic Case Report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1879529
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