Fournier Gangrene Caused by Candida albicans in an Infant After Cardiac Surgery

Fournier gangrene is a rare, rapidly progressive, life-threatening condition. We report a 23-day-old boy with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect treated surgically, who developed Fournier gangrene. Emergency surgery was performed with tissue sampling for microbiological examination. Can...

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Autores principales: Jaworski, Radoslaw, Irga-Jaworska, Ninela, Naumiuk, Łukasz, Chojnicki, Maciej, Haponiuk, Ireneusz
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Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5344938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27807668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11046-016-0086-4
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author Jaworski, Radoslaw
Irga-Jaworska, Ninela
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Chojnicki, Maciej
Haponiuk, Ireneusz
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description Fournier gangrene is a rare, rapidly progressive, life-threatening condition. We report a 23-day-old boy with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect treated surgically, who developed Fournier gangrene. Emergency surgery was performed with tissue sampling for microbiological examination. Candida albicans was confirmed; caspofungin followed by fluconazole was administered with excellent results.
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spelling pubmed-53449382017-03-21 Fournier Gangrene Caused by Candida albicans in an Infant After Cardiac Surgery Jaworski, Radoslaw Irga-Jaworska, Ninela Naumiuk, Łukasz Chojnicki, Maciej Haponiuk, Ireneusz Mycopathologia Article Fournier gangrene is a rare, rapidly progressive, life-threatening condition. We report a 23-day-old boy with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect treated surgically, who developed Fournier gangrene. Emergency surgery was performed with tissue sampling for microbiological examination. Candida albicans was confirmed; caspofungin followed by fluconazole was administered with excellent results. Springer Netherlands 2016-11-02 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5344938/ /pubmed/27807668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11046-016-0086-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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