These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Candida albicans and Staphylococcus lugdunensis superinfection of liver cysts in a patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease under prednisolone treatment.
    Author: Iijima T, Suwabe T, Inui K, Mizuno H, Hiramatsu R, Yamanouchi M, Sawa N, Takaichi K, Ubara Y.
    Journal: CEN Case Rep; 2020 Nov; 9(4):370-374. PubMed ID: 32440858.
    Abstract:
    We report a case of superinfection of liver cysts caused by Candida albicans and Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. A 69-year-old man with chief complaints of headache and blurred vision was admitted to the former institution for the evaluation of suspected temporal arteritis. He was prescribed oral prednisolone (55 mg/day) as a preemptive treatment; however, he became febrile and presented with bilateral flank pain during prednisolone tapering. Blood culture revealed fungemia as a result of Candida famata infection; thus, micafungin treatment was started. Thereafter, recrudescence of the C-reactive protein level ensued. Then a cyst infection as visualized on magnetic resonance imaging led to cyst aspiration sclerotherapy. Cyst aspirate culture revealed the presence of C. albicans in one of the cysts and S. lugdunensis in two of the cysts. The patient was clinically stabilized with an additional 3 weeks of antibiotic and antifungal drug administration.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]