title: Survival of a recipient of renal transplantation after pulmonary phycomycosis.
abstract: A 48-year-old nondiabetic man maintained on prednisone, azathioprine, and cyclosporine after cadaveric renal transplantation developed multiple unilateral phycomycotic pulmonary abscesses. Despite treatment with amphotericin B the patient remained febrile. Surgical resection of these pulmonary abscesses was performed and the patient remains free of disease 1 year after operation. To our knowledge, this patient represents the first reported case of pulmonary phycomycosis in a recipient of renal transplantation without diabetes mellitus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Clayman
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Geha
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000601:surgery*; D010800:Phycomyces / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*