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Brief Report

Concomitant Cat Scratch Disease and Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Cardiac Transplant

by
Nitin Bhanot
1,*,
George G. Sokos
2,
Raymond L. Benza
2 and
Srinivas Murali
2
1
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Infect. Dis. Rep. 2012, 4(1), e2; https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.3222
Submission received: 30 August 2011 / Revised: 31 August 2011 / Accepted: 14 November 2011 / Published: 22 December 2011

Abstract

Cat scratch disease has been reported very rarely in cardiac transplant recipients. In a review of 1073 episodes of infection in 620 heart transplant patients over a 16 year period, only one case of infection secondary to Bartonella henselae was documented. Another case of hepatosplenic bacillary angiomatosis from B. henselae was reported 2 decades ago in a heart transplant recipient who had presented with fevers of unknown origin. Although the typical clinical manifestation is that of a skin lesion accompanied with lymphadenopathy, cat scratch disease may present with persistent fevers without a clinically overt infective focus in immunosuppressed individuals. Moreover, more than one disease process may coexist in immunocompromised hosts. While the lymphadenopathy in our patient was secondary to Cat scratch disease, interestingly, the adjacent skin lesion that was thought to represent unhealed site of inoculation of Bartonella was diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma.
Keywords: Bartonella; cardiac; transplant Bartonella; cardiac; transplant

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Bhanot, N.; Sokos, G.G.; Benza, R.L.; Murali, S. Concomitant Cat Scratch Disease and Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Cardiac Transplant. Infect. Dis. Rep. 2012, 4, e2. https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.3222

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Bhanot N, Sokos GG, Benza RL, Murali S. Concomitant Cat Scratch Disease and Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Cardiac Transplant. Infectious Disease Reports. 2012; 4(1):e2. https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.3222

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Bhanot, Nitin, George G. Sokos, Raymond L. Benza, and Srinivas Murali. 2012. "Concomitant Cat Scratch Disease and Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Cardiac Transplant" Infectious Disease Reports 4, no. 1: e2. https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.3222

APA Style

Bhanot, N., Sokos, G. G., Benza, R. L., & Murali, S. (2012). Concomitant Cat Scratch Disease and Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Cardiac Transplant. Infectious Disease Reports, 4(1), e2. https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.3222

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