Sepsis due to Rhodotorula related to use of indwelling central venous catheters
| Autor: | Eileen Gorey, Timothy E. Kiehn, Arthur E. Brown, Donald Armstrong, F F Edwards |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Catheterization Central Venous Antifungal Agents Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment Rhodotorula Sepsis Catheters Indwelling medicine Humans Blood culture Child Fungemia Aged Retrospective Studies Chemotherapy medicine.diagnostic_test biology business.industry Silastic Middle Aged medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Surgery Catheter Infectious Diseases Chemotherapy Adjuvant Child Preschool Female business Central venous catheter |
| Zdroj: | Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 14(4) |
| ISSN: | 1058-4838 |
| Popis: | With increased use of surgically implanted silastic central venous catheters, there has been an increase in the recovery from blood cultures at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York) of environmental and skin organisms including the red yeast Rhodotorula. From 1985 through 1989, 23 patients had catheter-related Rhodotorula sepsis. All 23 patients had indwelling central venous catheters that had been in place from 1 to 22 months (average, 9.3 months) prior to the detection of fungemia. All patients had blood drawn both through the catheter and from a peripheral source, and only one patient had a peripheral blood culture positive for Rhodotorula. Colony counts of yeast from the catheter cultures often exceeded 100 (15 patients) and even 1,000 (seven patients) cfu/mL of blood. Thirteen of the patients were treated with antifungal therapy and had the catheter removed, and five patients received antifungal therapy without catheter removal (suggesting that compulsory removal of the catheter may not always be required). Five patients had the catheter removed without antifungal therapy. All patients survived the fungemic episode and experienced no recurrence of the infection. |
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