Chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient

Hematopoietic and solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of opportunistic infections and infections usually are severe due to impaired cell mediated immunity. We report an unusual case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient manifesting with a chronic progress...

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Autores principales: Tanveer, Farah, Younas, Mariam, Johnson, Leonard B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30619685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.12.006
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description Hematopoietic and solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of opportunistic infections and infections usually are severe due to impaired cell mediated immunity. We report an unusual case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient manifesting with a chronic progressive course over several years. After starting treatment with itraconazole, the patient showed marked improvement in his symptoms and had clinical resolution
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spelling pubmed-63138152019-01-07 Chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient Tanveer, Farah Younas, Mariam Johnson, Leonard B. Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Hematopoietic and solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of opportunistic infections and infections usually are severe due to impaired cell mediated immunity. We report an unusual case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient manifesting with a chronic progressive course over several years. After starting treatment with itraconazole, the patient showed marked improvement in his symptoms and had clinical resolution Elsevier 2018-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6313815/ /pubmed/30619685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.12.006 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient
title Chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient
title_full Chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient
title_fullStr Chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient
title_full_unstemmed Chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient
title_short Chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient
title_sort chronic progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30619685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.12.006
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