title: Successful treatment of disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection in a living-donor liver transplantation recipient.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsukada
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akamatsu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okugawa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koike
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makuuchi
mesh_terms: 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