Myocardial toxoplasmosis complicating cardiac transplant.

Autor: Dressler FA; From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A., Javier JJ; From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A., Salinas-Madrigal L; From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A.; From the Department of Pathology St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A., Milligan TW; From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A.; From the Department of Pathology St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A., McBride LR; From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A.; From the Department of Surgery, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A., Labovitz AJ; From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A., Miller LW; From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology [Cardiovasc Pathol] 1996 Mar-Apr; Vol. 5 (2), pp. 101-4.
DOI: 10.1016/1054-8807(95)00068-2
Abstrakt: The increase in numbers of immunocompromised patients has been reflected by an increasing frequency of opportunistic infections. Of these, Toxoplasma gondii has been reported as a significant human pathogen following cardiac transplantation. In this setting, quiescent toxoplasma myocardial cysts may become active after implantation into a therapeutically immunosuppressed host. The consequences of infection are significant and carry a high morbidity and mortality. We present the clinical and pathologic characteristics of a patient with toxoplasma infection complicating cardiac transplant and review previously reported cases of this entity.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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