Isolated cardiac aspergillosis after bone marrow transplantation.
A 15-year-old girl developed isolated cardiac aspergillosis after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Predisposing factors included severe graft-vs-host disease with gastrointestinal tract involvement and immunosuppressive therapy including cyclosporine. The patient died of cardiopulmonary failure 11 weeks after transplantation.
Johnson
R B
RB
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Montefiore Hospital, PA 15213.
Wing
E J
EJ
Miller
T R
TR
Rosenfeld
C S
CS
D000293:Adolescent; D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000635:transmission*; D001232:Aspergillus fumigatus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous