Successful treatment of disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection in a living-donor liver transplantation recipient.
Nocardiosis is a serious infection with high mortality. We report a case of subcutaneous and neural lesions due to Nocardia farcinica infection after living-donor liver transplantation. The neural lesion was cured with antibiotics without drainage.
Shin
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Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Sugawara
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Y
Tsukada
K
K
Tamura
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S
Akamatsu
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N
Okugawa
S
S
Koike
K
K
Kikuchi
K
K
Makuuchi
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M
D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009615:Nocardia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009617:Nocardia Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology