Trichosporon hepatitis

Korinek, J.K.; Guarda, L.A.; Bolivar, R.; Stroehlein, J.R.

Gastroenterology 85(3): 732-734

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0016-5085
PMID: 6575926
Document Number: 220069
A case is reported in a 33-yr-old woman from Puerto Rico with acute myelomonocytic leukaemia. While she was already receiving amphotericin B for suspected Aspergillus sinusitis, the patient developed hepatomegaly and abnormal liver enzymes with high serum bilirubin. Blood cultures were negative but T. cutaneum [T. beigelii] was cultured from specimens obtained at percutaneous liver biopsy. The patient died of fungaemia and polymicrobial sepsis, despite therapy with amphotericin B and 5-fluorocytosine.

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