Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii Is an Emerging Cause of Mastitis Especially in Patients With Psychiatric Illness on Antipsychotic Medication

This retrospective study of patients with Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii infections revealed a predominance of mastitis and a potential association with psychiatric illnesses. At least one third of our patients with C kroppenstedtii mastitis had psychiatric illness, and >92% received antipsychoti...

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Autores principales: Wong, Sally C. Y., Poon, Rosana W. S., Chen, Jonathan H. K., Tse, Herman, Lo, Janice Y. C., Ng, Tak-Keung, Au, Jonathan C. K., Tse, Cindy W. S., Cheung, Ingrid Y. Y., Yuk, Man-Ting, Luk, Wei-Kwang, Yuen, Kwok-Yung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28852671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx096
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Sumario:This retrospective study of patients with Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii infections revealed a predominance of mastitis and a potential association with psychiatric illnesses. At least one third of our patients with C kroppenstedtii mastitis had psychiatric illness, and >92% received antipsychotic medications. Drug-induced hyperprolactinemia may be an important modifiable risk factor in these patients.

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