Confusion, Headache, and Constitutional Symptoms in a Heart Transplant Recipient

Clin Infect Dis. 2019 May 17;68(11):1968-1973. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy519.

Authors

Shimin J Chung^{1

2}, Andrew M Strand², Louis R Dibernardo³, Erica Mitchell⁴, Michael Malinzak⁵, Eileen K Maziarz², Cameron R Wolfe²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina.
³ Department of Pathology, Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina.
⁴ Department of Medicine (Cardiology Division), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
⁵ Duke Radiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.

PMID: 31098617
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciy519

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acanthamoeba*
Aged
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Brain / pathology*
Confusion / parasitology*
Fatal Outcome
Headache / parasitology*
Heart Transplantation
Humans
Infectious Encephalitis / diagnosis
Infectious Encephalitis / parasitology*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Transplant Recipients