Burkholderia gladioli - a predictor of poor outcome in cystic fibrosis patients who receive lung transplants? A case of locally invasive rhinosinusitis and persistent bacteremia in a 36-year-old lung transplant recipient with cystic fibrosis

作者：Quon Bradley S; Reid James D; Wong Patrick; Wilcox Pearce G; Javer Amin; Wilson Jennifer M; Levy Robert D^*

来源：Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2011, 18(4): E64-E65.

DOI：10.1155/2011/304179

• Bacteremia
• Case report
• Cystic fibrosis
• Lung transplant
• Opportunistic infection

There have been very few reports describing postlung transplant outcomes in patients' infected/colonized with Burkholderia gladioli pretransplant. A case involving a lung transplant recipient with cystic fibrosis who ultimately died as a result of severe rhinosinusitis due to B gladioli infection in the context of postlung transplant immunosuppression is reported.

• 出版日期2011-8