Disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum central nervous system infection after lung transplantation: A case report with successful recovery

Scedosporium species are fungal opportunistic pathogens frequently seen in chronic lung diseases such as in cystic fibrosis (CF). They can cause a wide spectrum of diseases mainly in immunodeficient patients. Invasive, disseminated infections with poor prognosis have been described after lung transp...

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Autores principales: Paajanen, Juuso, Halme, Maija, Palomäki, Maarit, Anttila, Veli-Jukka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30956943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.03.003
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author Paajanen, Juuso
Halme, Maija
Palomäki, Maarit
Anttila, Veli-Jukka
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description Scedosporium species are fungal opportunistic pathogens frequently seen in chronic lung diseases such as in cystic fibrosis (CF). They can cause a wide spectrum of diseases mainly in immunodeficient patients. Invasive, disseminated infections with poor prognosis have been described after lung transplantation. We present a CF-patient with disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum infection after lung transplantation. The patient had skin, surgical wound, spinal cord, and brain involvements. She recovered fully after prolonged course of voriconazole treatment.
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spelling pubmed-64317312019-04-05 Disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum central nervous system infection after lung transplantation: A case report with successful recovery Paajanen, Juuso Halme, Maija Palomäki, Maarit Anttila, Veli-Jukka Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Scedosporium species are fungal opportunistic pathogens frequently seen in chronic lung diseases such as in cystic fibrosis (CF). They can cause a wide spectrum of diseases mainly in immunodeficient patients. Invasive, disseminated infections with poor prognosis have been described after lung transplantation. We present a CF-patient with disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum infection after lung transplantation. The patient had skin, surgical wound, spinal cord, and brain involvements. She recovered fully after prolonged course of voriconazole treatment. Elsevier 2019-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6431731/ /pubmed/30956943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.03.003 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum central nervous system infection after lung transplantation: A case report with successful recovery
title Disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum central nervous system infection after lung transplantation: A case report with successful recovery
title_full Disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum central nervous system infection after lung transplantation: A case report with successful recovery
title_fullStr Disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum central nervous system infection after lung transplantation: A case report with successful recovery
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum central nervous system infection after lung transplantation: A case report with successful recovery
title_short Disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum central nervous system infection after lung transplantation: A case report with successful recovery
title_sort disseminated scedosporium apiospermum central nervous system infection after lung transplantation: a case report with successful recovery
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30956943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.03.003
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