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Disseminated Ochroconis gallopava infection in a heart transplant patient
- Source :
- Transplant Infectious Disease, Transplant Infectious Disease, Wiley, 2013, 15 (3), pp.E115-E118. ⟨10.1111/tid.12084⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- International audience; Ochroconis gallopava is an emerging cause of mycosis in solid organ transplant recipients. Herein, we report a rare case of disseminated O. gallopava infection that involved lung, subcutaneous area, brain and peritoneum in a heart transplant recipient. Despite voriconazole therapy, the patient died 2 months after diagnosis.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Antifungal Agents
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
medicine.medical_treatment
disseminated mycosis
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Fatal Outcome
Peritoneum
Ascomycota
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Lung
Mycosis
Heart transplantation
Voriconazole
0303 health sciences
Transplantation
immunosuppression
biology
030306 microbiology
business.industry
Ochroconis gallopava
hearttransplantation
Brain
Immunosuppression
Middle Aged
Triazoles
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
3. Good health
Infectious Diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Pyrimidines
Mycoses
Heart Transplantation
Transplant patient
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13993062 and 13982273
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....22c322a5d22b4a4648df090e42489c2d
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.12084⟩