Strongyloides stercoralis

Record number:

936

Adverse Occurrence type:

Strongyloides

MPHO Type:

Heart

Time to detection:

2 months

Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:

Fatigue, malaise, hemoptysis,respiratory distress, shock, CNS symptoms

Demonstration of imputability or root cause:

Proven: Parasite visualised at bronchoscopy. Strongyloides and Vancomycin resistant enterococcus found in CSF. Three allograft recipients from same donor (heart, kidney and kidney/pancreas) were seronegative for strongyloides IgG by EIA and were diagnosed with infection post-transplant. No information available for the liver recipient. Donor was seropositive for strongyloides.

Imputability grade:

3 Definite/Certain/Proven

Keywords:

infection

Strongyloides stercoralis