Overcoming Double Jeopardy: Successful Orthotopic Heart Transplant in a Recipient with Bacterial and Fungal Infections

• DOI: 10.22541/au.169778025.50872027/v3
• Publication Date: 2024-04-29T09:38:39Z
• Authors: Paopat Munthananu...; Bundit Naratreekoon; Narongrit Kantathut; Piya Samankatiwat; Akeatit Trirattan...; Teerapat Yingchon...
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; RC666-701; Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system; Case Report

Although active infection is generally a contraindication before an orthotopic heart transplant, a 16‐year‐old man diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy successfully underwent an orthotopic heart transplant despite having active probable invasive pulmonary aspergillosis and bacterial pneumonia in the presence of septic and cardiogenic shock.