PATIENT AND CAREGIVER VIDEO STORIES

Cryptococcosis

Covid-19–Associated Cryptococcosis in a Transplant Patient

In this video interview, Peter Pappas, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at University of Alabama School of Medicine, interviews a kidney transplant recipient who recently developed cryptococcosis during a hospitalization with COVID-19.  Dr Pappas also provides some insights into the risk for invasive fungal infections in solid organ transplant patients who develop COVID-19.

 

Dr Pappas discussing the patient’s disease and treatment course with him

 

Dr Pappas discussing COVID-19—associated invasive fungal infections in transplant patients