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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 11.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Surg. 1997 Mar;132(3):304–310. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1997.01430270090019

Table 2.

Clinical Characteristics of Brain Abscesses by Allografted Organ Type

Organ Type* Transplantation
Frequency		 No. of Major
Subsequent
Operations		 Organism Frequency* No. of Patients Who Were
 Outcome*
Ventilator
Dependent		 Hemodialysis
Dependent
Liver (15) 1.8 Livers per patient 9 Aspergillus sp (13); Mucorales sp (1); and Toxoplasma sp (1) 14 12 Dead (14), alive (1)
Heart and heart-lung (7) 1.1 Hearts per patient 3 Aspergillus sp (4); Nocardia sp (2); and Toxoplasma sp (1) 4 4 Dead (5), alive (2)
Kidneys (6) 1.3 Kidneys per patient 5 Aspergillus sp (5) and Candida sp (1) 6 5 Dead (5), alive (1)
*

The number in parentheses indicates the number of patients.