Record number:
934
Adverse Occurrence type:
MPHO Type:
Time to detection:
9 weeks
Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:
Gastrointestinal symptoms (abdominal distention, nausea, anorexia)
Demonstration of imputability or root cause:
Proven; donor from endemic country, serology positive. Recipient was seronegative pre-transplant. Strongyloides adult worms seen in EGD and larvae seen in urine. This receipient received kidney/pancreas; other recipients of kidney and heart from same donor also acquired strongyloides infection. Good response to ivermectin and albendazole.
Imputability grade:
3 Definite/Certain/Proven
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