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ArticleIndian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2019

Should all tubercular cavities be left alone? Lessons from a heart transplant.

Vinitha Viswambharan Nair, Kiran Vishnu Narayan, Shobha Kurian Pulikottil, Joseph Thomas Kathayanat, Nidheesh Chooriyil, Ratish Radhakrishnan, Akash Babu, Jayakumar Thanathu Krishnan Nair

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Article in Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Vinitha Viswambharan NairDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India.ORCID 0000-0001-8804-1840
Kiran Vishnu NarayanDepartment of Pulmonology, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India.
Shobha Kurian PulikottilDepartment of Microbiology, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India.
Joseph Thomas KathayanatDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India.
Nidheesh ChooriyilDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India.
Ratish RadhakrishnanDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India.
Akash BabuDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India.
Jayakumar Thanathu Krishnan NairDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India.

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Abstract

Fungal infection after solid organ transplantation poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. We present the case of a 50-year-old man who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation for dilated cardiomyopathy with a history of treated pulmonary tuberculosis 10 years pre-transplant. One year post-transplantation, he was admitted with recurrent productive cough and was evaluated to have intracavitory aspergillosis of the lung. He was started on medical therapy with reduction in immunosuppression, but succumbed later with allograft rejection and multiorgan failure. Management of invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised host is a real challenge. Management protocol should be individualised.

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