Nocardiosis in a Kidney-Pancreas Transplant

Nocardiosis in a Kidney-Pancreas Transplant

34-year-old man with chronic renal and pancreas failure in complicated diabetic disease received a kidney-pancreas transplantation. On the 32nd postoperative day, an acute kidney rejection occurred and resolved with OKT3 therapy. The patient also presented refractory urinary infection by E. Fecalis and M. Morganii, and a focal bronchopneumonia in the right-basal lobe resolved with elective chem...

Nocardiosis in Heart Transplant Recipients.

Nocardia has emerged as an important opportunistic pathogen, especially in organ transplant recipients. Heart transplant (HT) recipients initially had an especially high rate of Nocardia infection, but this could be reduced by the routine use of cyclosporine. Our objective was to clarify the prevalence and presentation of Nocardiosis in HT recipients in a retrospective cross-sectional analysis.

Nocardiosis in Solid Organ Transplant

The genus Nocardia includes more than 80 known species, with at least 33 of them related to human pathology [2,3]. It is an opportunistic pathogen, causing infection generally in immunosuppressed, mainly with long exposure to corticosteroids, transplanted or HIV positive patients. It has worldwide distribution and is very ubiquitous, being found in terrestrial and aquatic environments as well a...

Simultaneous pancreas kidney transplant versus other kidney transplant options in patients with type 2 diabetes.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Current organ allocation policy prioritizes placement of kidneys (with pancreas) to patients listed for simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK). Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) may undergo SPK, but it is unknown whether these patients enjoy a survival advantage with SPK versus deceased-donor kidney transplantation alone (DDKA) or living-donor k...

Covid-19 infection in kidney transplant recipients: a case report