amphotericin-b and Aortic-Dissection

Torulopsis glabrata is a yeast ordinarily considered nonpathogenic. Systemic infection with this yeast occurs in patients who are debilitated, immunosuppressed, diabetic, or receiving multiple antibiotics. We have presented a case of fungemia due to T glabrata in a previously healthy person. The predisposing condition resulting in debility and predisposition to fungemia was major vascular surgery. Treatment with amphotericin B eradicated the fungemia.

Topics: Acute Kidney Injury; Amphotericin B; Aortic Aneurysm; Aortic Dissection; Candida; Candidiasis; Causality; Fungemia; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Postoperative Complications; Prognosis; Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Topics: Amphotericin B; Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal; Aortic Dissection; Disease Progression; Fatal Outcome; Female; Humans; Marfan Syndrome; Mesenteric Ischemia; Middle Aged; Mucormycosis; Multiple Organ Failure; Polymethyl Methacrylate; Postoperative Complications; Risk Assessment; Soft Tissue Infections