Disseminated Trichosporon capitatum infection in a patient with acute leukemia undergoing bone marrow transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplant. 1990 Sep;6(3):219-21.

Abstract

A case of disseminated infection with Trichosporon capitatum is reported in a 23-year-old patient with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing HLA-mismatched bone marrow transplantation. He was receiving immunosuppressive therapy with cyclosporine and corticosteroids for acute graft-versus-host disease and he was severely neutropenic. While being treated with fluconazole for 28 days for an oropharyngeal candidiasis the patient developed a T. capitatum septicemia. He died despite receiving amphotericin B therapy. Autopsy revealed widespread infection with T. capitatum. The portal of entry was probably the digestive tract in this patient as T. capitatum had been first isolated in the stools.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anemia, Aplastic / complications
  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Graft vs Host Disease / complications
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myeloid / complications
  • Leukemia, Myeloid / therapy*
  • Male
  • Mycoses / drug therapy
  • Mycoses / etiology*
  • Neutropenia / complications*
  • Opportunistic Infections / etiology*
  • Sepsis / etiology
  • Trichosporon*

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents