Trichosporon hepatitis

Josef K. Korinek; Luis A. Guarda; Ricardo Bolivar; John R. Stroehlein

doi:10.1016/0016-5085(83)90034-3

Trichosporon hepatitis

Josef K. Korinek, Luis A. Guarda, Ricardo Bolivar, John R. Stroehlein

Gastroenterology Hepatology & Nutrition

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Abstract

A 33-yr-old Puerto Rican women was hospitalized for chemotherapy and multiple antibiotic treatment for relapse of acute myelomonocytic leukemia. While she was already receiving amphotericin for suspected Aspergillus infection, she developed hepatomegaly and abnormal liver enzymes with high serum bilirubin. The blood cultures were negative. Percutaneous liver biopsy revealed granulomatous fungal hepatitis identified by cultures as Trichosporon cutaneum. In spite of the continued administration of amphotericin, with the addition of 5-fluorocytosine, Trichosporon was later cultured from her blood, and she succumbed to fungemia and polymicrobial sepsis.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	732-734
Number of pages	3
Journal	Gastroenterology
Volume	85
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-5085(83)90034-3
State	Published - Sep 1983

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