Cryptococcal disease presenting as necrotizing cellulitis in transplant recipients: Case report

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 353-358

  Baer, S ^a,d   Baddley, J W ^b,c   Gnann, J W ^b,c   Pappas, P G ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus; Myositis; Necrotizing fasciitis; Necrotizing vasculitis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; METRONIDAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANKLE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLISTER; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CADAVER KIDNEY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMATITIS; DERMIS; DESQUAMATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECCHYMOSIS; EDEMA; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; EPIDERMIS; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KNEE; LEG DISEASE; LEG EDEMA; LEG PAIN; LEG SWELLING; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL HEALTH; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PALPATION; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; PUSTULE; RASH; RECURRENT FEVER; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN BRUISING; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN INDURATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN NODULE; SKIN PAIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN ULCER; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; STAINING; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; URINE CULTURE; VASCULAR NECROSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND CARE; YEAST;

CELLULITIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEG; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS;

EID: 68849095696     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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