Devastating Invasive Aspergillus Infection Following Commercial Kidney Transplantation: Case Report, Review of Literature, and Ethical Issues

Anna Basok; Elvira Romanjuk; Boris Rogachev; Yosef Shmuel Haviv; Ruth Shaco Halevy; Marina Vorobiov

doi:10.2147/TRRM.S425072

Devastating Invasive Aspergillus Infection Following Commercial Kidney Transplantation: Case Report, Review of Literature, and Ethical Issues

Anna Basok, Elvira Romanjuk, Boris Rogachev, Yosef Shmuel Haviv, Ruth Shaco Halevy, Marina Vorobiov

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Abstract

We described an extraordinary case of invasive aspergillosis (IA) after commercial kidney transplantation. Massive infestation by angiotrophic fungi with morphological features of Aspergillus caused fungal arteritis of renal blood vessels with detachment of the kidney graft from the iliac artery with ipsilateral leg ischemia, necessitating graft removal and recurrent vascular surgery to restore the blood supply to the leg. A literature review comprising various features of invasive aspergillosis and ethical aspects of commercial kidney transplantations is elucidated in this paper.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Transplant Research and Risk Management
Volume	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2147/TRRM.S425072
State	Published - 1 Jan 2024

Keywords

IA
TT
galactomannan
invasive aspergillosis
transplant tourism

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Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Transplantation

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