FUNGAL INFECTIONS AFTER RENAL-TRANSPLANTATION

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 12  (7) , 674-677
Abstract
Fungal infections occurred in 3 of 22 renal transplants (13.6%). Two patients developed rhinocerebral phycomycosis, and Rhizopus arrhizus was isolated from cultures of the nasal conchae. Both patients were treated with systemic amphotericin B. At 3 1/2 mo. after transplantation the 3rd patient developed an acute ureteral obstruction secondary to infection with Aspergillus nidulans; this necessitated removal of the graft. There was no immediate mortality associated with these fungal infections but there was immediate loss of the grafts in the 2 patients. [The patients were immunosuppressed.].

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