Aspergillus fumigatus-Related Spondylodiscitis in a Heart Transplant Patient Successfully Treated With Voriconazole

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2627-2628

  Weclawiak H ^a   Garrouste, C ^a   Kamar, N ^a   Linas, M D ^a   Tall, P ^a   Dambrin, C ^a   Durand, D ^a   Rostaing, L ^a  

^a CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PARACETAMOL; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MAXILLA SINUSITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DISCITIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PYRIMIDINES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 35348899488     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.08.014     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Faure B.T., Biondi J.X., Flanagan J.P., et al. Aspergillus osteomyelitis of the acetabulum. A case report and review of the literature. Orthop Rev 19 (1990) 58
2. Cortet B., Richard R., Deprez X., et al. Aspergillus spondylodiscitis: successful conservative treatment in 9 cases. J Rheumatol 21 (1994) 1287
3. Castelli C., Benazzo F., Minoli L., et al. Aspergillus infection of the L3-L4 disc space in an immunosuppressed heart transplant patient. Spine 15 (1990) 1369
4. Hummel M., Schuler S., Weber U., et al. Aspergillosis with Aspergillus osteomyelitis and diskitis after heart transplantation: surgical and medical management. J Heart Lung Transplant 12 (1993) 599
5. Tang T.J., Janssen H.L., van der Vlies C.H., et al. Aspergillus osteomyelitis after liver transplantation: conservative or surgical treatment?. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 12 (2000) 123
6. Salvalaggio P.R., Bassetti M., Lorber M.I., et al. Aspergillus vertebral osteomyelitis after simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation. Transpl Infect Dis 5 (2003) 187
7. Park S.B., Kang M.J., Whang E.A., et al. A case of fungal sepsis due to Aspergillus spondylitis followed by cytomegalovirus infection in a renal transplant recipient. Transplant Proc 36 (2004) 2154
8. Stevens D.A., Kan V.L., Judson M.A., et al. Practice guidelines for diseases caused by Aspergillus. Clin Infect Dis 30 (2000) 696
9. Stratov I., Korman T.M., and Johnson P.D. Management of Aspergillus osteomyelitis: report of failure of liposomal amphotericin B and response to voriconazole in an immunocompetent host and literature review. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 22 (2003) 277
10. Mouas H., Lutsar I., Dupont B., et al. Voriconazole for invasive bone aspergillosis: a worldwide experience of 20 cases. Clin Infect Dis 40 (2005) 1141
11. Lodge B.A., Ashley E.D., Steele M.P., et al. Aspergillus fumigatus empyema, arthritis, and calcaneal osteomyelitis in a lung transplant patient successfully treated with posaconazole. J Clin Microbiol 42 (2004) 1376
12. Manavathu E.K., Cutright J.L., Loebenberg D., et al. A comparative study of the in vitro susceptibilities of clinical and laboratory-selected resistant isolates of aspergillosis spp. to amphotericin B, itraconazole, voriconazole and posaconazole (SCH 56592). J Antimicrob Chemother 46 (2000) 229