Endocarditis due to Rhodotorula mucilaginosa in a kidney transplanted patient: case report and review of medical literature
| Autor: | Juliana Ribeiro Peres da Silva, Suzimar da Siveira Rioja, Maria Luíza MacDowell, Paulo Vieira Damasco, Raphael Hirata Junior, Marcia S. C. Melhem, Andrea Maria Cabral, Fabio Brito-Santos, Ana Luíza Mattos-Guaraldi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) medicine.medical_specialty 030106 microbiology kidney transplantation Case Report Rhodotorula mucilaginosa Rhodotorula Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences Internal medicine medicine Endocarditis Fever of unknown origin Fungemia Kidney transplantation Blood/Heart and Lymphatics biology infective endocarditis business.industry medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Surgery immunocompromised Infective endocarditis business Medical literature |
| Zdroj: | JMM Case Reports |
| ISSN: | 2053-3721 |
| DOI: | 10.1099/jmmcr.0.005119 |
| Popis: | Introduction. Endocarditis caused by yeasts is currently an emerging cause of infective endocarditis and, when accompanied byfever of unknown origin, is more severe since interferes with proper diagnosis and endocarditis treatment. Case presentation. The Rio de Janeiro Infective Endocarditis Study Group reports a case of infectious endocarditis (IE) with negative blood cultures in a 45-year-old white female resident in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, previously submitted to kidney transplantation. After diagnosis and intervention, the valve culture revealed Rhodotorula mucilaginosa. The clinical aspects and overview of endocarditis caused by Rhodotorula spp. demonstrated that R. muscilaginosa have been isolated from the last IE cases from kidney transplanted patients. Conclusion. Though most of the patients (in literature) recovered well from endocarditis caused by Rhodotorula spp., physicians must be aware for diagnosis of fungemia and fungal treatment in kidney transplanted patients suffering of fever of unknown origin in the modern immunosuppressive treatment. |
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