Graft involvement by Legionella in a liver transplant recipient
| Autor: | Richard Garcia-Kennedy, Itasaka H, Yukihiko Tokunaga, Paul Nakazato, Waldo Concepcion, Kenneth L. Cox, Lory D. Wiviott, William E. Berquist, Carlos O. Esquivel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Legionella Fluorescent Antibody Technique Erythromycin Lactobionate Legionella pneumophila Fulminant hepatic failure medicine Humans Lung biology business.industry Sputum Infant biology.organism_classification medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Surgery Liver Transplantation Transplantation Neonatal hepatitis medicine.anatomical_structure Respiratory failure Liver Legionnaires' Disease business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960). 127(4) |
| ISSN: | 0004-0010 |
| Popis: | • Legionella pneumophila , serogroup 1, was identified by direct immunofluorescence in the lung and liver graft from a 2½-month-old infant who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation because of fulminant hepatic failure secondary to neonatal hepatitis. The patient died of respiratory failure owing to this infection 22 days after transplantation despite treatment with erythromycin lactobionate. To our knowledge, this represents the first reported case of hepatic infection with Legionella in liver transplant recipients. ( Arch Surg . 1992;127:475-477) |
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