Disseminated aspergillosis in a renal transplant patient: Diagnostic difficulties re-emphasized.
An asymptomatic and radiographically occult lung abscess was the primary focus of infection in this case of fatal disseminated aspergillosis in a renal transplant recipient. Extensive neurological evaluation in response to a change in personality failed to reveal a brain abscess, which was the cause of death. This case illustrates the variability in presentations of aspergillosis and the continuing difficulties in diagnosing this infection in immunosuppressed patients.
D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000469:parasitology*; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008169:Lung Abscess / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous