Fulminant hepatitis in Listeria septicemia
Tschumper, A.; Streuli, H.; Hottinger, S.; Zimmermann, A.; Müller, U.
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift 117(50): 2010-2012
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7672 PMID: 3124266 Document Number: 292309
We report on a 44-year-old male patient admitted with acute severe icteric hepatitis. Listeria monocytogenes was isolated from blood cultures. The further course was complicated by meningitis and the patient finally died of multiorgan failure. Autopsy revealed nodular cirrhosis of the liver with cholestatic hepatitis and focal subacute liver dystrophy, as well as granulating meningitis. The case is discussed in the context of five previously published observations on hepatitis due to Listeria monocytogenes.