Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Asano, Marina
• Mizutani, Makoto
• Nagahara, Yasuko
• Inagaki, Koji
• Kariya, Tetsuyoshi
• Masamoto, Daijiro
• Urai, Makoto
• Kaneko, Yukihiro
• Ohno, Hideaki
• Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu
• Mizuno, Masashi
• Ito, Yasuhiko

Titel

Successful Treatment of Cryptococcus laurentii Peritonitis in a Patient on Peritoneal Dialysis

Ist Teil von

• Internal Medicine, 2015, Vol.54(8), pp.941-944

Ort / Verlag

Japan: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A 32-year-old man on peritoneal dialysis (PD) was hospitalized for seven days due to fever. A diagnosis of yeast-like fungal peritonitis was made by Gram staining. The patient was started on intravenous micafungin and oral fluconazole therapy following removal of the PD catheter. A fungal pathogen was isolated from the peritoneal fluid and identified as Cryptococcus species. Based on antifungal susceptibility testing, the treatment was changed to voriconazole and continued for 3 months. A genetic analysis identified the isolate as Cryptococcus laurentii (C. laurentii). This patient was diagnosed with C. laurentii PD-related peritonitis and was successfully treated with voriconazole and removal of the PD catheter.