[Cardiac invasive aspergillosis in a heart transplant recipient].

Background: Solid organ transplant recipients are a population at risk of invasive aspergillosis. The lung and the central nervous system are usually affected.

Objectives: We report the case of a patient with proven cardiac invasive aspergillosis two years after heart transplantation, and perform a review of cardiac aspergillosis in solid organ transplant recipients.

Spectrum of pulmonary aspergillosis: histologic, clinical, and radiologic findings.

Aspergillosis is a serious pathologic condition caused by Aspergillus organisms and is frequently seen in immunocompromised patients. At computed tomography (CT), saprophytic aspergillosis (aspergilloma) is characterized by a mass with soft-tissue attenuation within a lung cavity. The mass is typically separated from the cavity wall by an airspace ("air crescent" sign) and is often associated with thickening of the wall and adjacent pleura.

Lung nodular lesions in heart transplant recipients.

To describe the characteristics and etiology of lung nodules after heart transplantation (HT). During a 6-year period 147 patients received HT and 130 survived more than 1 week. Nodular lesions were demonstrated after HT in 13 patients (10%).