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Articles tagged "Fungal infection"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Breakthrough Invasive Fungal Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Patients Receiving Isavuconazole

    M. Fung, C. Devoe, B. S. Schwartz, S. B. Doernberg, J. Babik, P. V. Chin-Hong

    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: Isavuconazole (ISA) is a broad-spectrum triazole antifungal approved in 2015 for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis. While it is increasingly used in…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Targeted Antifungal Prophylaxis in Liver Transplant Recipients: Two Year, Retrospective Cohort Analysis

    N. Persun1, J. Doyon2, E. Blumberg2, S. Prenner2, V. Khungar2, P. Abt3, C. Sammons1

    1Pharmacy, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: No consensus exists regarding systemic antifungal prophylaxis in liver transplant recipients (LTRs) in terms of optimal duration, choice of agent, or risk factors to…
  • 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…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Itraconazole Prophylaxis, Trough Concentration, and Identification of Fungal Pathogens in Lung Transplant

    H. Hassouna, V. Athans, K. Brizendine.

    Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.

    Studies of prophylactic itraconazole (ITR) in lung transplant recipients (LTR) are lacking. Our purpose was to evaluate LTR who received ITR prophylaxis and the association…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Bloodstream Infection Caused by Enteric Organisms during the First 6 Months after Intestinal Transplant

    J. Simkins,1 J. Morillas-Rodriguez,1 M. Morris,1 L. Abbo,1 J. Camargo,1 R. Vianna.2

    1Medicine/Infectious Diseases, University of Miami, Miami; 2Surgery, University of Miami, Miami.

    Background: Irreversible intestinal failure can be treated effectively with intestinal transplant (ITx). Infections are common after ITx but data on bloodstream infection (BSI) due to…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    T2Candida for Diagnosis of Candidemia in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

    T. McCarty, J. Baddley, J. Locke, R. Mannon, D. Eckhoff, V. Rusanov, S. Moser, P. Pappas.

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

    Purpose: Candidemia is a critical contributor to morbidity following solid organ transplantation (SOT). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the T2Candida assay (T2)…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Fluconazole Prophylaxis on Fungal Infections in Liver Transplant Recipients

    K. Roach,1 S. Todd,2 M. Lyon,2 R. Subramanian.2

    1Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA; 2Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA.

    The purpose of this study was to assess if utilizing fluconazole for prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) in high risk liver transplant recipients is…
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