@article{db059370c4c449198991930788761fb8,
title = "Unrecognized pretransplant and donor-derived cryptococcal disease in organ transplant recipients",
abstract = "Background. Cryptococcosis occurring ≤30 days after transplantation is an unusual event, and its characteristics are not known. Methods. Patients included 175 solid-organ transplant (SOT) recipients with cryptococcosis in a multicenter cohort. Very early-onset and late-onset cryptococcosis were defined as disease occurring ≤30 days or >30 days after transplantation, respectively. Results. Very early-onset disease developed in 9 (5%) of the 175 patients at a mean of 5.7 days after transplantation. Overall, 55.6% (5 of 9) of the patients with very early-onset disease versus 25.9% (43 of 166) of the patients with late-onset disease were liver transplant recipients (P = .05). Very early cases were more likely to present with disease at unusual locations, including transplanted allograft and surgical fossa/site infections (55.6% vs 7.2%; P < .001). Two very early cases with onset on day 1 after transplantation (in a liver transplant recipient with Cryptococcus isolated from the lung and a heart transplant recipient with fungemia) likely were the result of undetected pretransplant disease. An additional 5 cases involving the allograft or surgical sites were likely the result of donor-acquired infection. Conclusions. A subset of SOT recipients with cryptococcosis present very early after transplantation with disease that appears to occur preferentially in liver transplant recipients and involves unusual sites, such as the transplanted organ or the surgical site. These patients may have unrecognized pretransplant or donor-derived cryptococcosis.",
author = "Sun, {Hsin Yun} and Alexander, {Barbara D.} and Olivier Lortholary and Francoise Dromer and Forrest, {Graeme N.} and Lyon, {G. Marshall} and Jyoti Somani and Gupta, {Krishan L.} and {Del Busto}, Ramon and Pruett, {Timothy L.} and Sifri, {Costi D.} and Limaye, {Ajit P.} and John, {George T.} and Klintmalm, {Goran B.} and Kenneth Pursell and Valentina Stosor and Morris, {Michele I.} and Dowdy, {Lorraine A.} and Patricia Munoz and Kalil, {Andre C.} and Julia Garcia-Diaz and Orloff, {Susan L.} and House, {Andrew A.} and Houston, {Sally H.} and Dannah Wray and Shirish Huprikar and Johnson, {Leonard B.} and Atul Humar and Razonable, {Raymund R.} and Fisher, {Robert A.} and Shahid Husain and Wagener, {Marilyn M.} and Nina Singh",
note = "Funding Information: Potential conflicts of interest. B.D.A. has served on advisory boards for Abbott, Bristol Myers Squibb, bioM{\'e}rieux, and has received investigator-initiated grants from Astellas and Pfizer. O.L. has served on speaker{\textquoteright}s bureaus of Astellas, Gilead Sciences, Merck, Schering-Plough, and Pfizer and as a consultant for Astellas and Gilead Sciences. G.F. has received grant support from Astellas. G.M.L. has served on advisory boards for and received grants from Merck and Astellas and on speaker{\textquoteright}s bureaus of Astellas, Schering-Plough, and Wyeth. A.P.L. has served on consultant boards for Pfizer and Merck and has contracted research for Pfizer. M.I.M. has served on advisory boards for Astellas, Pfizer, and Merck; has received grants from Astellas, Basilea, and Pfizer; and has served on speaker{\textquoteright}s bureaus of Astellas and Pfizer. P.M. has served on speaker{\textquoteright}s bureaus of Merck and Novartis and on an advisory board for Pfizer. S.H.H. has served on speaker{\textquoteright}s bureaus of Astellas and Pfizer. L.B.J. has served on a speaker{\textquoteright}s bureau of Pfizer. S.H. has received grants from Pfizer, Astellas, and Merck. N.S. has received investigator-initiated grant support from Pfizer. All other authors: no conflicts.",
year = "2010",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1086/656584",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "51",
pages = "1062--1069",
journal = "Clinical Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1058-4838",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "9",
}