Successful bilateral lung transplantation from a deceased donor with active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Imran Yaqoob Nizami; Basha J Khan; Waleed Saleh; Mohamed Hussein

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.11.077

Successful bilateral lung transplantation from a deceased donor with active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Ann Thorac Surg. 2014 Apr;97(4):e109-10. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.11.077.

Authors

Imran Yaqoob Nizami¹, Basha J Khan², Waleed Saleh³, Mohamed Hussein⁴

Affiliations

¹ Organ Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² Organ Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: bashajalal@gmail.com.
³ Department of Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

PMID: 24694450
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.11.077

Abstract

In the present report, we describe a case wherein a Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection developed in the recipient after successful bilateral lung transplantation because of a solitary pulmonary nodule in the donor.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Cadaver
Female
Humans
Lung Transplantation / methods*
Tissue Donors
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary* / surgery