Pseudallescheria boydii infection after bone marrow transplantation

Gumbart, C.H.

Annals of Internal Medicine 99(2): 193-194

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0003-4819
PMID: 6309050
Document Number: 210894
A case is reported in a 39-yr-old man who died 25 days after bone marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Autopsy results showed nodular, bilateral pneumonia and a single large pulmonary embolus containing fungal elements was found in the lower lobe of the right lung. P. boydii was cultured from pulmonary secretions. The kidneys contained fungal abscesses and the epicardium, pericardium and myocardium showed fungal involvement.

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