Simultaneous mold infections in an orthotopic heart transplant recipient

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 343-345

  Clauss, H ^a   Samuel, R ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Basiliximab; Heart transplantation; Left ventricular assist device; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; BASILIXIMAB; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOCARDIAL BIOPSY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN INFECTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMATOMYCOSES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; PYRIMIDINES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHIZOPUS; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 52449087717     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2007.00299.x     Document Type: Article

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