Fever of Unknown Origin in a Renal Transplant Recipient: Lactate Dehydrogenase as an Important Clue to Diagnosis.

We report a case of a 23-year-old male patient who presented with fever of unknown origin, cytopenias, organomegaly, and allograft dysfunction 4 months after renal transplant with father as donor. Bone marrow examination showed intracellular budding yeast cells, which was confirmed as histoplasmosis by culture of bone marrow biopsy sample. The patient was treated with intravenous liposomal amphotericin and responded well. PMID: 31050612 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research