Disseminated cerebral fusariosis in a liver-transplant patient: A case report and review of the literature.
Z Gastroenterol
; 60(8): 1231-1234, 2022 Aug.
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| ID: mdl-34781387
ABSTRACT
Fusarium spp. can cause invasive infection with fatal outcomes in immunocompromised patients. Therefore, invasive fusariosis is rare after solid organ transplantation. For this reason, experience and management are limited to single published case reports.We report a 65-year-old female patient with disseminated brain abscesses caused by Fusarium after liver transplantation (LT). The patient underwent LT for secondary sclerosing cholangitis after acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). After a complicated course with aneurysm and thrombosis of the hepatic artery, re-transplantation was performed after one month. Due to inadequate awakening response, cerebral imaging was performed, which showed multiple abscesses. The patient died shortly thereafter, and an autopsy showed fusariosis.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transplante de Fígado
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Fusariose
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Fusarium
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Z Gastroenterol
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Alemanha