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Spondylodiscitis after bilateral sequential lung transplantation in a patient with cystic fibrosis
Author(s) -
Quattrucci S.,
Canuzzi P.,
Bertasi S.,
Grzejdziak A.D.,
Midulla F.,
Crucitti G.,
Melis E.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
transplant infectious disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1399-3062
pISSN - 1398-2273
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2004.00042.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cystic fibrosis , spondylodiscitis , lung transplantation , lung , transplantation , surgery
We report the case of a 24‐year‐old woman with cystic fibrosis in whom spondylodiscitis developed after bilateral sequential transplantation. The diagnostic work‐up included magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography‐guided disk biopsy, histological examination, and cultures of disk specimens. The infective organism was D group Streptococcus and the patient was successfully treated with intravenous piperacillin followed by oral ampicillin. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of spondylodiscitis after lung transplantation.