Successful treatment due to vacuum seal technique of a severe Scedosporium apiospermum skin infection in a renal transplant recipient

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 245-248

  Reimann, Doreen ^a   Büssemaker, Eckhart ^a   Gross, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pseudallescheria boydii; Renal transplantation; Scedosporium apiospermum; Skin infection; Vacuum seal

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN A; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MICONAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; INCISION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SKIN INFECTION; VACUUM; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND HEALING;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MADUROMYCOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCEDOSPORIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM;

EID: 0347917075     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg433     Document Type: Article

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