Case 20-2019: A 52-Year-Old Woman with Fever and Rash after Heart Transplantation

N Engl J Med. 2019 Jun 27;380(26):2564-2573. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1904040.

Authors

Michael G Ison¹, Taylor A Lebeis¹, Nicolas Barros¹, Gregory D Lewis¹, Lucas R Massoth¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago (M.G.I.); and the Departments of Medicine (T.A.L., N.B., G.D.L.) and Pathology (L.R.M.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine (T.A.L., N.B., G.D.L.) and Pathology (L.R.M.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston.

PMID: 31242366
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1904040

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Antibodies, Protozoan / blood
Biopsy
Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / surgery
Chagas Disease / complications
Chagas Disease / diagnosis*
Chronic Disease
Diagnosis, Differential
Exanthema / etiology
Female
Fever / etiology
Heart Transplantation / adverse effects*
Humans
Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
Middle Aged
Myocardium / pathology
Parasitemia / diagnosis
Trypanosoma cruzi / immunology
Trypanosoma cruzi / isolation & purification*

Substances

Antibodies, Protozoan