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Empyema Presentation Secondary to Streptococcus constellatus
A 60-year-old male presented to our institution for abdominal pain and was later admitted to the intensive care unit for shock, acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, and acute kidney injury. He was subsequently found to have a large left-sided pleural effusion with empyema secondary to Streptococcus...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10498997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37711946 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43468 |
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author | Li, Anji Razzak, Abrahim N Patel, Milan R Jha, Pinky Singh, Abhijai |
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description | A 60-year-old male presented to our institution for abdominal pain and was later admitted to the intensive care unit for shock, acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, and acute kidney injury. He was subsequently found to have a large left-sided pleural effusion with empyema secondary to Streptococcus constellatus. With the emerging threat and growing prevalence of Streptococcus anginosus group pathogens, there is now greater clinical importance in identifying viridans streptococci at the species level. While immunosuppressed individuals are at greater risk of opportunistic pathogens, this case presentation demonstrated that Streptococcus constellatus can remain a serious community-acquired pathogen for the non-immunosuppressed. Continued interprofessional team care management and a greater look into the reasons for greater Streptococcus anginosus pathogenicity may be indicated. |
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spelling | pubmed-104989972023-09-14 Empyema Presentation Secondary to Streptococcus constellatus Li, Anji Razzak, Abrahim N Patel, Milan R Jha, Pinky Singh, Abhijai Cureus Internal Medicine A 60-year-old male presented to our institution for abdominal pain and was later admitted to the intensive care unit for shock, acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, and acute kidney injury. He was subsequently found to have a large left-sided pleural effusion with empyema secondary to Streptococcus constellatus. With the emerging threat and growing prevalence of Streptococcus anginosus group pathogens, there is now greater clinical importance in identifying viridans streptococci at the species level. While immunosuppressed individuals are at greater risk of opportunistic pathogens, this case presentation demonstrated that Streptococcus constellatus can remain a serious community-acquired pathogen for the non-immunosuppressed. Continued interprofessional team care management and a greater look into the reasons for greater Streptococcus anginosus pathogenicity may be indicated. Cureus 2023-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10498997/ /pubmed/37711946 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43468 Text en Copyright © 2023, Li et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Li, Anji Razzak, Abrahim N Patel, Milan R Jha, Pinky Singh, Abhijai Empyema Presentation Secondary to Streptococcus constellatus |
title | Empyema Presentation Secondary to Streptococcus constellatus |
title_full | Empyema Presentation Secondary to Streptococcus constellatus |
title_fullStr | Empyema Presentation Secondary to Streptococcus constellatus |
title_full_unstemmed | Empyema Presentation Secondary to Streptococcus constellatus |
title_short | Empyema Presentation Secondary to Streptococcus constellatus |
title_sort | empyema presentation secondary to streptococcus constellatus |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10498997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37711946 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43468 |
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