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Tan SK, Gajurel K, Tung C, et al. Fatal acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a total artificial heart (syncardia) device. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2014;1(2):ofu057doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofu057.
Tan, S. K., Gajurel, K., Tung, C., Albers, G., Deresinski, S., Montoya, J. G., Sheikh, A. Y., Banerjee, D., & Ha, R. (2014). Fatal acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a total artificial heart (syncardia) device. Open forum infectious diseases, 1(2), ofu057. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu057
Tan, Susanna K, et al. "Fatal acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a total artificial heart (syncardia) device." Open forum infectious diseases vol. 1,2 (2014): ofu057. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu057
Tan SK, Gajurel K, Tung C, Albers G, Deresinski S, Montoya JG, Sheikh AY, Banerjee D, Ha R. Fatal acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a total artificial heart (syncardia) device. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2014 Aug 19;1(2):ofu057. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofu057. eCollection 2014 Sep. PMID: 25734127; PMCID: PMC4281817.
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Open Forum Infect Dis. 2014 Aug 19;1(2):ofu057. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofu057. eCollection 2014 Sep.

Fatal acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a total artificial heart (syncardia) device.

Open forum infectious diseases

Susanna K Tan, Kiran Gajurel, Christie Tung, Gregory Albers, Stan Deresinski, Jose G Montoya, Ahmad Y Sheikh, Dipanjan Banerjee, Richard Ha

Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine , Stanford University School of Medicine.
  2. Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences , Stanford University School of Medicine.
  3. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery , Stanford University School of Medicine.
  4. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine , Stanford University School of Medicine , California.

PMID: 25734127 PMCID: PMC4281817 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofu057

Abstract

Acanthamoeba encephalitis is an uncommon but often fatal infection complication. Here we report the first case of Acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a Total Artificial Heart device.

Keywords: Acanthamoeba; encephalitis; heart failure; total artificial heart

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