Fatal allograft mucormycosis complicating severe COVID-19 infection and bacterial pyelonephritis.
Abhilash ChandraS Namrata RaoKiran Preet MalhotraPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2022)
We herein present a case of live related kidney transplant recipient who initially developed severe coronavirus (COVID-19) disease associated with E.coli related pyelonephritis and graft dysfunction, who improved over one week only to deteriorate in the second week, with fever, oligoanuria and refractory shock. A postmortem allograft biopsy revealed angioinvasive mucormycosis. With the resurgence of mucormycosis during the COVID-19 pandemic, the transplant team should add allograft mucormycosis as a rare differential for severe graft dysfunction and oligoanuria in the COVID-19-infected kidney transplant recipient.