Candida albicans arteritis transmitted by conservative liquid after renal transplantation: A report of four cases and review of the literature

Transplantation

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1163-1167

  Mai, Hoa ^a   Champion, Laure ^b   Ouali, Nacera ^c   Hertig, Alexandre ^c   Peraldi, Marie Noelle ^b   Glotz, Denis ^b   Rondeau, Eric ^c   Costa, Marie Alyette ^c   Snanoudj, Renaud ^a   Benoit, Gérard ^a   Charpentier, Bernard ^a,d   Durrbach, Antoine ^a,d,e  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Arteritis; Candida infection; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ARTERITIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL ARTERY;

EID: 33750993067     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000239188.27153.23     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Kyriakides GK, Simmons RL, Najarian JS. Mycotic aneurysms in transplant patients. Arch Surg 1976; 111(4): 472.
2. Owens ML, Wilson SE, Maxwell JG, et al. Major arterial hemorrhage after renal transplantation. Transplantation 1979; 27(4): 285.
3. Spees EK, Light JA, Oakes DD, Reinmuth B. Experiences with cadaver renal allograft contamination before transplantation. Br J Surg 1982; 69(8): 482.
4. Pluemecke G, Williams J, Elliott D, Paul LC. Renal transplant artery rupture secondary to candida infection. Nephron 1992; 61(1): 98.
5. Sailors DM, Barone GW, Gagne PJ, et al. Candida arteritis: are GI endoscopic procedures a source of vascular infections? Am Surg 1996; 62(6): 472.
6. Potti A, Danielson B, Sen K. "True" mycotic aneurysm of a renal artery allograft. Am J Kidney Dis 1998; 31(1): E3.
7. Calvino J, Romero R, Pintos E, et al. Renal artery rupture secondary to pretransplantation Candida contamination of the graft in two different recipients. Am J Kidney Dis 1999; 33(1): E3.
8. Battaglia M, Ditonno P, Fiore T, et al. True mycotic arteritis by Candida albicans in 2 kidney transplant recipients from the same donor. J Urol 2000; 163(4): 1236.
9. Gari-Toussaint M, Ngoc LH, Gigante M, et al. [Kidney transplant and Candida albicans arteritis. The importance of analysing the transplant conservation liquid]. Presse Med 2004; 33(13): 866.
10. Lacombe M. [Mycotic aneurysm after kidney transplantation]. Chirurgie 1999; 124(6): 49.
11. Gottesdiener KM. Transplanted infections: donor-to-host transmission with the allograft. Ann Intern Med 1989; 110(12): 1001.
12. Garrido J, Lerma JL, Heras M, et al. Pseudoaneurysm of the iliac artery secondary to Aspergillus infection in two recipients of kidney transplants from the same donor. Am J Kidney Dis 2003; 41(2): 488.
13. Sanchez AA, Johnston DA, Myers C, et al. Relationship between Candida albicans virulence during experimental hematogenously disseminated infection and endothelial cell damage in vitro. Infect Immun 2004; 72(1): 598.
14. Ellepola AN, Morrison CJ. Laboratory diagnosis of invasive candidiasis. J Microbiol 2005; 43: 65.
15. Denning DW. Echinocandin antifungal drugs. Lancet 2003; 362: 1142.
16. Mora-Duarte J, Betts R, Rotstein C, et al. Caspofungin Invasive Candidiasis Study Group. Comparison of caspofungin and amphotericin B for invasive candidiasis. N Engl J Med 2002; 347: 2020.