Articles tagged "Fungal infection"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Cryptococcosis In Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Retrospective Case-Control Study
L. Tardieu¹, O. Lortholary², F. Lanternier², A. Scemla³, C. Rafat¹
¹Urgences Néphrologiques et Transplantation Rénale, Hôpital Tenon, APHP, Paris, France, ²Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales – Centre d’Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, Hôpital Necker, APHP, Paris, France, ³Service de Transplantation Rénale, Hôpital Necker, APHP, Paris, France
*Purpose: Cryptococcosis is the third most common invasive fungal infection in organ transplant recipients.The clinical approach and prognosis has been previously investigated in the setting…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Epidemiology of Invasive Fungal Infections in Heart Transplant Recipients
A. Couture-Cossette¹, A. Puing¹, A. Multani², O. Quintero¹, A. K. Subramanian¹, E. Henricksen³, R. Lee¹, Y. Moayedi⁴, K. Khush⁵, J. J. Teuteberg⁵, D. Y. Ho¹
¹Department of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Department of Infectious Diseases, UCLA, Stanford, CA, ³Pharmacy, Stanford Healthtcare, Stanford, CA, ⁴Department of Cardiology, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: The incidence and epidemiology of invasive fungal infections (IFI) after heart transplantation (HTx) are influenced by changes in environmental exposures, immunosuppression, and prophylaxis practices.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Once Weekly Fluconazole is Effective for the Prevention of Oral Candidiasis in Kidney Transplant Recipients
J. Lockridge, D. Roberts, K. Spence, M. Stack, S. Rehman, A. Olyaei
OHSU, Portland, OR
*Purpose: Oropharyngeal candidiasis is an infection prevalent in renal transplant recipients, with significant concerns for invasive endoscopic workup and development into invasive fungal infections. While…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of an Invasive Fungal Infection Prophylaxis Strategy after Liver Transplantation at a Large Academic Medical Center
M. Jorgenson¹, J. Descourouez¹, D. Felix¹, N. Marka², G. Leverson², J. Smith², L. Fernandez², D. Foley²
¹UW Health, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Invasive fungal infection (IFI) after liver transplant (LTx) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Studies show that IFI prophylaxis improves outcomes but the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Profile of Invasive Fungal Disease after Kidney Transplantation in a Single Brazilian Center
S. C. Miranda, G. M. Pereira Junior, C. A. Felipe, A. S. Alvarenga, P. A. Macedo Souza, C. Ribeiro, S. C. Cantini
Nephrology, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
*Purpose: This study sought to describe the epidemiology of Invasive fungal disease at a brazilian kidney transplant center.*Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the diagnoses of invasive…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Target Itraconazole Trough Concentration for Prophylaxis in Lung Transplant
J. A. Morillas-Rodriguez¹, H. Hassouna², F. Marco-Canosa³, K. D. Brizendine¹
¹Infectious disease, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Infectious disease, Spectrum health, Grand rapids, MI, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Itraconazole (ITR) therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) for prophylaxis in lung transplant recipients (LTR) is not well characterized. Our purpose was to evaluate ITR trough…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Candida auris after Liver Transplant
N. M. Theodoropoulos, R. Ellison, J. S. Daly, A. Bozorgzadeh, D. A. Mack, L. Gibson, S. M. Levitz
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
*Purpose: C. auris is a difficult to eradicate yeast that has caused outbreaks in hospitals in recent years. We report a cluster of liver transplant…
2019 American Transplant Congress
CCR5-Mediated Recruitment of NK Cells to the Kidney is a Critical Step for Host Defense to Candida albicans Infection
H. R. Cho¹, V. G. Tran², N. N. Nguyen³, S. Lee⁴, S. W. Kang⁴, J. Kim⁴, H. J. Kim⁴, S. J. Park¹, J. S. Lee⁵, B. Kwon⁶
¹Department of Surgery, Ulsan University Hospital, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ²School of Biological Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Republic of Korea, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ³1School of Biological Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Republic of Korea, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Biomedical Research Center, Ulsan University Hospital, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ⁶Biomedical Research Center, Ulsan University Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Candida albicans infection causes a high rate of mortality in immunocompromised or transplant patients. In this study, we investigated the role of CCR5 that…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Infection and Renal Transplant Outcomes in the Hmong Population
M. Jorgenson¹, J. Descourouez¹, D. Yang², G. Leverson², J. Smith², R. Redfield²
¹UW Health, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Literature suggests the Hmong people to be at higher risk for infection, particularly fungal. The risk of infection after transplant in the Hmong population…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Risk of Opportunistic Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Cytomegalovirus Infection and Associated Outcomes
M. Jorgenson¹, J. Descourouez¹, B. Cardinale², B. Lyu³, B. Astor³, N. Garg³, C. Saddler³, J. Smith³, D. Mandelbrot³
¹UW Health, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, Madison, WI, ³University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in kidney transplant recipients has been anecdotally observed with concomitant or subsequent opportunistic infections (OI), but this association has yet to…

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