Candida Tropicalis Cholangitis in a Patient Without Underlying Malignancy

Candida tropicalis is a rare cause of acute cholangitis, predominantly seen in patients with underlying hematological malignancies. Here, we describe a case of acute cholangitis caused by mixed organisms (Candida tropicalis, Candida albicans, and Enterococcus durans) without a known risk factor.

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Autores principales: Saradna, Arjun, Shankar, Shyam, Shamian, Benhoor, Kupfer, Yizhak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5773273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375953
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1867
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author Saradna, Arjun
Shankar, Shyam
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description Candida tropicalis is a rare cause of acute cholangitis, predominantly seen in patients with underlying hematological malignancies. Here, we describe a case of acute cholangitis caused by mixed organisms (Candida tropicalis, Candida albicans, and Enterococcus durans) without a known risk factor.
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spelling pubmed-57732732018-01-28 Candida Tropicalis Cholangitis in a Patient Without Underlying Malignancy Saradna, Arjun Shankar, Shyam Shamian, Benhoor Kupfer, Yizhak Cureus Internal Medicine Candida tropicalis is a rare cause of acute cholangitis, predominantly seen in patients with underlying hematological malignancies. Here, we describe a case of acute cholangitis caused by mixed organisms (Candida tropicalis, Candida albicans, and Enterococcus durans) without a known risk factor. Cureus 2017-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5773273/ /pubmed/29375953 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1867 Text en Copyright © 2017, Saradna et al. http://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.
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Saradna, Arjun
Shankar, Shyam
Shamian, Benhoor
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Candida Tropicalis Cholangitis in a Patient Without Underlying Malignancy
title Candida Tropicalis Cholangitis in a Patient Without Underlying Malignancy
title_full Candida Tropicalis Cholangitis in a Patient Without Underlying Malignancy
title_fullStr Candida Tropicalis Cholangitis in a Patient Without Underlying Malignancy
title_full_unstemmed Candida Tropicalis Cholangitis in a Patient Without Underlying Malignancy
title_short Candida Tropicalis Cholangitis in a Patient Without Underlying Malignancy
title_sort candida tropicalis cholangitis in a patient without underlying malignancy
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5773273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375953
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1867
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