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Toxoplasma gondii pneumonitis in a liver transplant recipient: implications for diagnosis
N Singh1, T Gayowski, I R Marino
1Infectious Disease Section, VA Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15240, USA.
Liver Transplantation and Surgery : Official Publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
Toxoplasma gondii pneumonia developed 27 days after retransplantation for chronic rejection in a liver transplant recipient receiving tacrolimus as primary immunosuppression. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole had been discontinued (due to cytopenia) before the onset of T gondii pneumonia. T gondii was isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid by growth in fibroblast cell culture routinely used for the isolation of viruses and detected in lung on autopsy. Tissue culture used for the detection of viruses can also be diagnostically useful for the detection of T gondii.