Concomitant cryptococcosis and burkholderia infection in an asymptomatic lung transplant patient with cystic fibrosis

S Shafaghi; M Pour Abdollah; P Tabarsi; F Ghorbani; S S M Makki; H R Khoddami Vishteh; J Faeghi; K Najafizadeh

Concomitant cryptococcosis and burkholderia infection in an asymptomatic lung transplant patient with cystic fibrosis

Int J Organ Transplant Med. 2010;1(4):183-6.

Authors

S Shafaghi¹, M Pour Abdollah², P Tabarsi², F Ghorbani¹, S S M Makki², H R Khoddami Vishteh¹, J Faeghi², K Najafizadeh³

Affiliations

¹ General Practitioner, Organ Donation Research Center of Iran;
² Lung Transplantation Research Center;
³ Associated Professor of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine; Lung Transplantation Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 25013584
PMCID: PMC4089241

Abstract

Concomitant pulmonary infections with Cryptococcus neoformans and Burkholderia cepacia in lung transplant recipients are very rare and create unique diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. Herein, we present a double lung transplant patient with cystic fibrosis who was found to have coinfection with these two rare organisms, though he was completely asymptomatic.

Keywords: Burkholderia infection; Cryptococcosis; Cystic fibrosis; Double lung transplantation.

Publication types

Case Reports