Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia (Jul 2021)

Disseminated paracoccidioidomycosis in a liver transplant patient

  • Flávia de Oliveira Valentim,
  • Giuliane Minami Tsutsui,
  • Luciana Patrícia Fernandes Abbade,
  • Silvio Alencar Marques

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abd.2020.07.011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 96, no. 3
pp. 346 – 348

Abstract

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Abstract Paracoccidioidomycosis is an endemic systemic mycosis caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis complex and P. lutzii. It is a rare disease in non-HIV-induced immunosuppressed individuals. In organ transplant recipients, it is more frequently associated with immunosuppression after kidney transplantation. In a liver transplant patient, only one case has been published in the literature to date. The present report comprises the case of a 47-year-old female patient with disseminated skin lesions associated with signs and symptoms of systemic involvement of paracoccidioidomycosis that manifested one year after liver transplantation and under an immunosuppression regimen with tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil.

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