TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fernandez-Yañez, Juan
AU  - Sousa, Iago
AU  - Muñoz, Patricia
AU  - Sarmiento, Elizabeth
AU  - Carbone, Javier
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/03/22
TI  - Secondary Antibody Deficiency in a Heart Recipient with Systemic Aspergillosis
JO  - OBM Transplantation
SP  - 058
VL  - 03
IS  - 01
AB  - Secondary antibody deficiency has been associated with risk of invasive fungal infections in solid organ transplantation. Single center, multi-center and meta-analysis studies have tested this association. Therapy of these infectious complications in the presence of a secondary antibody deficiency after transplantation remain a challenge for transplant teams. Currently, there are no guidelines for the management of this combined clinical scenario. We report the case of a patient with severe secondary immunodeficiency before and after heart transplantation who developed several infectious complications including, cardiac invasive aspergillosis, and had a long-term survival after combination therapy of anti-microbial drugs and prolonged intravenous immunoglobulin replacement therapy.
SN  - 2577-5820
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.transplant.1901058
DO  - 10.21926/obm.transplant.1901058
ID  - Fernandez-Yañez2019
ER  -