Successful liver transplantation from donor with Plesiomonas shigelloides sepsis after freshwater drowning: Case report and review of literature on gram-negative bacterial aspiration during drowning and utilization of organs from bacteremic donors

Surgical Infections

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 114-120

  Bonatti, Hugo ^a   Sifri, Costi ^b   Sawyer, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADEFOVIR; CEFEPIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FRESH WATER; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; LAKE WATER; LAMIVUDINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DROWNING; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDLINE; ORGAN DONOR; PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES; PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

BACTEREMIA; DROWNING; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLESIOMONAS; SEPSIS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859569707     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2010.018     Document Type: Review

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