Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation - LIDSEN Publishing Inc.丨The Open Access Publisher

(ISSN 2577-5820)

OBM Transplantation is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal, which covers all evidence-based scientific studies related to transplantation, including: transplantation procedures and the maintenance of transplanted tissues or organs; assimilation of grafted tissue and the reconstitution of removed organs or parts of organs; transplantation of heart, lung, kidney, liver, pancreatic islets and bone marrow, etc. Areas related to clinical and experimental transplantation are also of interest.

OBM Transplantation is committed to rapid review and publication, and we aim at serving the international transplant community with high accessibility as well as relevant and high quality content.

We welcome original clinical studies as well as basic science, reviews, short reports/rapid communications, case reports, opinions, technical notes, book reviews as well as letters to the editor.

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Rapid publication: manuscripts are undertaken in 7 days from acceptance to publication (median values for papers published in this journal in 2020, 1-2 days of FREE language polishing time is also included in this period).

Current Issue: 2021 Archive: 2020 2019 2018 2017

Special Issue

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Submission Deadline: March 30, 2021 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editor

Mark Reza Laftavi, MD, FACS, FICS

Professor and interim Chief of Transplant Services, Director, Pancreas Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, Upstate University Hospital, 750 East Adams Street, Suite 8141, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Tel: 315-464-7329
Fax: 315-464-6288

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Research Interests: Transplant; immunocompromised patient and surgery; pancreatic disease; pediatric kidney disease and transplant; renal transplant; pancreas and kidney transplantation

Publication

Open Access Case Report

Donor Derived Strongyloidiasis in a Lung Transplant Recipient: From Life Cycle to Hyperinfection Syndrome

Shalika Katugaha ,

Oksana Shlobin ,

Chris King ,

Steve Nathan ,

Shambu Aryal ,

Kareem Ahmad and

Whitney Brown

Received: 04 September 2020; Published: 13 October 2020; doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2004120

Abstract

Strongyloides stercoralis infection derived from the donor in solid organ transplant (SOT) places recipients at risk for hyperinfection syndrome and death. We describe the case of a lung transplant recipient who developed strongyloidiasis presenting with GI symptoms and progressing to diffuse alveol [...]

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