Use of organs for transplantation from a donor with primary meningoencephalitis due to Naegleria fowleri
Autor: | M. W. Rosson, J. F. Nespral, W. M. Bennett, K. M. McEvoy |
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Rok vydání: | 2008 |
Předmět: |
Male
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Urinary system Central nervous system Central Nervous System Protozoal Infections Meningoencephalitis parasitic diseases Immunology and Allergy Medicine Animals Humans Pharmacology (medical) Organ donation Child Naegleria fowleri Transplantation Kidney Lung biology business.industry Amebiasis Organ Transplantation biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Tissue Donors medicine.anatomical_structure Immunology business |
Zdroj: | American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 8(6) |
ISSN: | 1600-6143 |
Popis: | Naegleria fowleri is a free-living amebic organism that causes acute meningoencephalitis and brain death in young people. Though this infection is limited to the central nervous system, organ donation is usually ruled out because of the infectious nature of the donor's death. Based on the realization that this organism is limited to the brain, we successfully transplanted organs from a 12-year-old male donor dying of N. fowleri infection. Kidneys, pancreas, a lung and liver were used with no evidence of posttransplant infectious complications. This unusual cause of brain death does not preclude successful organ donation. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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