Graft Hepatic Artery Rupture Due to Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection After Liver Transplant.
Graft Hepatic Artery Rupture Due to Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection After Liver Transplant.
Exp Clin Transplant. 2019 Aug 19;:
Authors: Qian Y, Zhang H, Chen X, Zhang J, Xia Q
Abstract
Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality after solid-organ transplant and hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Here, we report a 57-year-old man with hepatitis B virus-related decompensated liver cirrhosis, huge splenic artery aneurysm, and hypersplenism who underwent liver transplant from a deceased brain-dead donor. Recipient sputum surveillance showed carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae when he entered the intensive care unit, and combined tigecycline, meropenem, and fosfomycin were administered. At 1 week posttransplant, the recipient's hepatic artery was eroded by disseminated carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infection, and the patient developed acute kidney injury. Our experience suggests that colonization of carbapenem-producing organisms may be included during surveillance posttransplant and that the infected graft artery must be removed instead of noninfected vessels.
PMID: 31424357 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Qian Y, Zhang H, Chen X, Zhang J, Xia Q Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research
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