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C andida arteritis occurring in a liver transplant recipient
Author(s) -
Lladó L.,
Solé C.,
Bodro M.,
Baliellas C.,
Sabé N.,
Petit A.,
Ramos E.,
Carratalà J.,
Fabregat J.
Publication year - 2014
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/tid.12218
Subject(s) - medicine , arteritis , candida albicans , liver transplantation , antifungal , pathology , surgery , dermatology , transplantation , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
We report the first case, to our knowledge, of C andida arteritis in a liver transplant recipient. The patient presented with hemorrhagic shock requiring emergency arterial repair. As C andida albicans , C andida tropicalis , and C andida glabrata were growing in the arterial tissue, the patient received antifungal therapy for 5 months, but died because of chronic graft dysfunction. No evidence of fungal infection was found in the tissue on postmortem examination.