Kim S W, Nah M Y, Yeum C H, Kim N H, Choi H S, Juhng S W, Choi K C
Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Kwangju 501-757, Korea.
J Infect. 2001 Apr;42(3):215-7. doi: 10.1053/jinf.2001.0791.
Common clinical manifestations of aspergillosis in renal transplant recipients are fever and pulmonary infiltrates, but involvement of the reproductive system is rare. We report a case of pelvic aspergillosis with tubo-ovarian abscess in a renal transplant patient. The patient received a cadaveric renal transplantation, and two episodes of acute rejection were treated with methylprednisolone pulse therapy. Surgical biopsy specimens of pelvic abscess detected by ultrasonogram and CT revealed Aspergillus. With amphotericin B treatment, the patient is well with normalization of erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein.