Journal article
Successful Therapy for Cerebral Phaeohyphomycosis Due to Dactylaria gallopava in a Liver Transplant Recipient
Clinical infectious diseases, v 19(4), pp 714-719
Oct 1994
PMID: 7803637
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Abstract
A 68-year-old liver transplant recipient who was being treated with FK 506 and immunosuppressive steroid therapy was admitted to our medical center because of a tonic-clonic seizure. Computed tomography of the head revealed multiple discrete cerebral abscesses, and culture of fluid drained intraoperatively yielded a dematiaceous fungus. The isolate was susceptible to amphotericin B and itraconazole but was resistant to flucytosine and fluconazole. The patient was successfully treated with a prolonged course of amphotericin B colloidal dispersion and itraconazole, as evidenced by both clinical and radiographic resolution of disease over a 2-year follow-up.
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- Title
- Successful Therapy for Cerebral Phaeohyphomycosis Due to Dactylaria gallopava in a Liver Transplant Recipient
- Creators
- Rade B. Vukmir - University of PittsburghShimon Kusne - University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterPeter Linden - University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterWilliam Pasculle - University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterAnnette W. Fothergill - University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterJohn Sheaffer - University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterJose Nieto - University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterRicardo Segal - University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterHadar Merhav - University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterA. Julio Martinez - University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterMichael G. Rinaldi - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Publication Details
- Clinical infectious diseases, v 19(4), pp 714-719
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press; CARY
- Number of pages
- 6
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Emergency Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1994PK85700012
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0027963159
- Other Identifier
- 991021903368804721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Immunology
- Infectious Diseases
- Microbiology