Three months before admission the patient was evaluated in a local emergency room with
complaints of right chest pain, which worsened with deep inspiration. The patient reported …

In 2009, Bertani et al. published the first case of lung transplantation in a HIV patient in Italy.
1 A lthough in the past HIV infection was an absolute contraindication for lung …

A44-year-old male presented to the emergency department with injury to his right hand. Five
days prior, he had been lifting a wheelbarrow out of his truck and punctured his right hand …

FIG 1 (A) Representative skin lesion from the left forearm, area from which a biopsy was
taken.(B) Potato flake agar subculture from right leg fungal culture showing white to tan fluffy …

Infection following lung transplantation carries with it significant morbidity and mortality, as
demonstrated by the most recent registry data from the International Society for Heart and …

Renal transplant recipients are at increased risk of malignancy and infection. We present the
case of a 72‐year‐old‐man with recurrent bladder carcinoma, abdominal aortic aneurysm …

A 53-year-old female with rheumatoid arthritis who had used methotrexate in the last year
and etanercept with corticosteroids in the last 4 weeks was admitted due to a high fever and …

A Gram stain showed highly pleomorphic, gram-negative rods that were identified as S.
moniliformis (figure 1). The patient was given a regimen of penicillin (2 million U every 4 h …

Diagnosis: Disseminated Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii infection (African
histoplasmosis). Silver staining of lymph node biopsy showed several yeasts (Figure 1 A …