Periumbilical parasitic thumbprint purpura: Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome acquired from a cadaveric renal transplant

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-62

  Weiser, J A ^a   Scully, B E ^b   Bulman, W A ^b   Husain, S ^a,c   Grossman, M E ^a,d  

^a Departments of Dermatology   (United States)

^b Medicine   (United States)

^c Division of Dermatopathology   (United States)

^d New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Periumbilical thumbprint purura; Purpura; Renal transplant; Strongyloides; Strongyloidiasis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; HEMOGLOBIN; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; IVERMECTIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; OSELTAMIVIR; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; SULTAMICILLIN; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DERMIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INTUBATION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; LABORATORY TEST; LARVA; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALAISE; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PERIUMBILICAL PARASITIC THUMBPRINT PURPURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; PURPURIC RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN BIOPSY; STOMACH LAVAGE; STRONGYLOIDES HYPERINFECTION SYNDROME; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIREMIA; VOMITING;

AGED; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CADAVER; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PURPURA; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, VASCULAR; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYNDROME; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 79551674403     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2010.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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