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Ochroconis gallopava peritonitis in a cardiac transplant patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
Author(s) -
Wong J.S.J.,
Schousboe M.I.,
Metcalf S.S.L.,
Endre Z.H.,
Hegarty J.M.,
Maze M.J.,
Keith E.R.,
Seaward L.M.,
Podmore R.G.
Publication year - 2010
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.1399-3062.2010.00523.x
Subject(s) - medicine , peritonitis , peritoneal dialysis , continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis , ambulatory , peritoneum , intensive care medicine , surgery
J.S.J Wong, M.I. Schousboe, S.S.L. Metcalf, Z.H. Endre, J.M. Hegarty, M.J. Maze, E.R. Keith, L.M. Seaward, R.G. Podmore. Ochroconis gallopava peritonitis in a cardiac transplant patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
Transpl Infect Dis 2010: 12: 455–458. All rights reserved Abstract:Ochroconis gallopava has rarely been isolated in immunosuppressed patients. We report the first case to our knowledge of O. gallopava peritonitis in a cardiac transplant patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. A 58‐year‐old man who had undergone cardiac transplant 8 years earlier alerted his dialysis nurses to the presence of black material in his catheter lumen. Fungal hyphae were seen on direct microscopy of the black material and from the dialysate effluent, and O. gallopava was cultured from both after 1 day. He was treated successfully with a single dose of intravenous voriconazole, followed by 2 weeks of oral voriconazole.