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- Title
Successful Therapy for Cerebral Phaeohyphomycosis Due to Dactylaria gallopava in a Liver Transplant Recipient.
- Authors
Vukmir, Rade B.; Kusne, Shimon; Linden, Peter; Pasculle, William; Fothergill, Annette W.; Sheaffer, John; Nieto, Jose; Segal, Ricardo; Merhav, Hadar; Martinez, A. Julio; Rinaldi, Michael G.
- Abstract
A 68-year-old liver transplant recipient who was being treated with FK 506 and immunosuppressive steroid therapy was admitted to our medical center because of a tonic-clonic seizure. Computed tomography of the head revealed multiple discrete cerebral abscesses, and culture of fluid drained intraoperatively yielded a dematiaceous fungus. The isolate was susceptible to amphotericin B and itraconazole but was resistant to flucytosine and fluconazole. The patient was successfully treated with a prolonged course of amphotericin B colloidal dispersion and itraconazole, as evidenced by both clinical and radiographic resolution of disease over a 2-year follow-up.
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1994, Vol 19, Issue 4, p714
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article