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Articles tagged "Fungal infection"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    A Retrospective Review of De Novo Coccidioidomycosis among Remote Solid Organ Transplant Recipients in Arizona

    T. Zangeneh,1 J. August,1 N. Beatty,1 K. Asbury,2 L. Mi,2 J. Blair.2

    1Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Arizona/Banner University Medical Center/Valley Fever Center for Excellence, Tucson, AZ; 2Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, AZ.

    Background: Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients residing in a Coccidioides-endemic region that acquire infection are at risk for complicated and protracted infection. Following transplantation, prophylaxis…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Renal Transplants from Donors with Positive Blood or Urine Cultures

    L. Chen,1 D. Kamiyama,2 L. Francalacci,1 E. Zhu,2 M. Donnelley,2 N. Clayton,2 K. Alman,1 A. De Mattos,1 J. Brown.3

    1Transplant Nephrology, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; 2Pharmacy, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; 3Infectious Diseases, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA.

    OBJECTIVES: To evaluate outcomes in renal transplant recipients who received organs from donors with positive blood or urine cultures.METHODS: We performed a retrospective, single-center study…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Tacrolimus and Isavuconazole Therapy: What about the Drug Interaction?

    C. Gill,1 N. Mercuro,1 R. Kenney,1 A. Jantz,1 B. Summers,1 N. Sulejmani,1 S. Davis.1,2

    1Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit; 2Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

    Introduction:Isavuconazole (ISV) is a triazole antifungal that is often utilized in solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis. Isavuconazole…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Defective Innate Immune Response to Opportunistic Pathogens in Cytomegalovirus-Infected Monocytes

    P. Sen, A. R. Wilkie, R. Fernandes, R. J. Lane, S. E. Hickman, T. K. Means, E. R. Rosenberg, D. M. Coen, J. A. Fishman, J. El Khoury.

    Transplant and Immunocompromised Group, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

    Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common infection encountered in transplantation and is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in both solid organ and…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) of Suspension (SUS), Extended-Release (ER), and Intravenous (IV) Posaconazole (POS) at a Large Transplant Center

    G. Haidar, R. Shields, C. Clancy, M. Nguyen.

    Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Background: Data on ER and IV POS among organ transplant recipients (OTRs) are limited, and the role of TDM is unclear.Methods: Retrospective study of patients…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    A Multi-Center Analysis of Risk Factors for Pneumocystis Pneumonia (PCP) in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

    S. Hosseini-Moghaddam, M. Shokoohi, G. Singh, S. Dufresne, A. Jevnikar, D. Kabbani, H. Cardinal, I. Houde, M-.J. Hebert, A. Shoker, G. Prasad, A. Humar, D. Kumar.

    Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), London, ON, Canada.

    Introduction: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is associated with morbidity and mortality in solid organ transplant patients (SOTs). There are increasing reports of late PCP in SOT…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Risk Factors for Invasive Fungal Infections among Lung Transplant Recipients

    K. Whitaker, J. Anesi, E. Blumberg, L. Gardo, J. Lee, M. Crespo, C. Bermudez, L. Glaser, M. Wilck.

    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Objective: Lung transplant (LT) recipients are at high risk of invasive fungal infections (IFI) with an estimated 1-year incidence of 8%. Despite advances in antifungal…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia (PJP) in Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Recipients in the Present Era of Routine Post-Transplant Prophylaxis: Risk Factors and Outcomes

    N. Garg, M. Jorgenson, M. Birschbach, J. Descourouez, S. Parajuli, B. Astor, A. Djamali, D. Mandelbrot.

    University of Wisconsin, Madison.

    PJP after transplant (TX) is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. In the present era of universal and routine implementation of PJP prophylaxis (PPX) during…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Cryptococcal Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients. A Single Center Experience

    M. Radisic,1 N. Pujato,1 A. Dotta,2 R. Livia Franzini,2 M. Bravo,1 L. Rodriguez Rilo,1 C. Giampieri,2 L. Leon,1 M. Rial,1 D. Casadei.1

    1Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Nefrologia de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2Kidney Transplantation, Instituto de Nefrologia de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    Cryptococcal infections are infrequent but a cause of morbidity & mortality in transplant (T) recipients. Best treatment and the need for secondary prophylaxis are still…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Transplant Tourism and Invasive Fungal Infection

    F. Al Ismaili,1 A. Metry,3 M. Al Riyami,5 F. Khamis,6 F. Shaheen,7 A. Hola,4 I. Al Salmi.2

    1The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; 2The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; 3The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; 4Histopathology, SQUH, Muscat, Oman; 5Infectious Diseases, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; 6SCOT, SCOT, RIyadh, Saudi Arabia; 7The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; 8The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman.

    Deceased and live-related Renal transplant (RTX) are widespread approved methods throughout the world. In-addition, commercial-RTX has gained an access at certain places driven by financial…
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