Fatal Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis Caused by Acanthamoeba in a Patient With Kidney Transplant: A Case Report.
Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) due to Acanthamoeba is almost a uniformly fatal infection in immune-compromised hosts despite multidrug combination therapy. We report a case of GAE in a female who received a deceased donor kidney graft. She was treated with a combination of miltefosine, pentamidine, sulfadiazine, fluconazole, flucytosine, and azithromycin.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine.
Ahmad
A
Salameh
Departments of Neurology.
Nancy
N
Bello
Radiology , University of Arizona , Tucson.
Jennifer
J
Becker
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine.
Tirdad
T
Zangeneh
Acanthamoeba; encephalitis; granulomatous amoebic; immunosuppression; transplantation