Muneyoshi Kimura, Matteo Rinaldi, Sagar Kothari, Maddalena Giannella, Shweta Anjan, Yoichiro Natori, Pakpoom Phoompoung, Emily Gault, Jonathan Hand, Matilde D'Asaro, Dionysios Neofytos, Nicolas J Mueller, Andreas E Kremer, Tereza Rojko, Marija Ribnikar, Fernanda P Silveira, Joshua Kohl, Angela Cano, Julian Torre-Cisneros, Rafael San-Juan, Jose Maria Aguado, Armaghan-E-Rehman Mansoor, Ige Abraham George, Alessandra Mularoni, Giovanna Russelli, Me-Linh Luong, Yamama A AlJishi, Maram N AlJishi, Bassem Hamandi, Nazia Selzner, Shahid Husain
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a rare but fatal disease among liver transplant recipients (LiTRs). We performed a multi-center 1:2 case-control study comparing LiTRs diagnosed with proven/probable IA and controls with no invasive fungal infection. We included 62 IA cases and 124 matched controls. Disseminated infection occurred only in eight cases (13%). 12-week all-cause mortality of IA was 37%. In multivariate analyses, systemic antibiotics usage (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 4.74; p=0.03) and history of pneumonia (aOR, 48...
May 25, 2024: American Journal of Transplantation