Management of an Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant with Bilateral Renal Obstruction Caused by Candida albicans Fungus Balls

We report an extremely low birth weight infant with anuria caused by bilateral Candida albicans fungus balls it was treated with a combination of antifungal therapy, irrigation and pyelotomy. This lead to a recovery of renal function, after a follow-up of 77 month no more Candida was cultured from u...

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Autores principales: Brüning, Fabian, Hegele, Axel, Klaus, Günter, Maier, Rolf F., Hofmann, Rainer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6875406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31781469
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3684734
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author Brüning, Fabian
Hegele, Axel
Klaus, Günter
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Hofmann, Rainer
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spelling pubmed-68754062019-11-28 Management of an Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant with Bilateral Renal Obstruction Caused by Candida albicans Fungus Balls Brüning, Fabian Hegele, Axel Klaus, Günter Maier, Rolf F. Hofmann, Rainer Case Rep Urol Case Report We report an extremely low birth weight infant with anuria caused by bilateral Candida albicans fungus balls it was treated with a combination of antifungal therapy, irrigation and pyelotomy. This lead to a recovery of renal function, after a follow-up of 77 month no more Candida was cultured from urine. Hindawi 2019-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6875406/ /pubmed/31781469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3684734 Text en Copyright © 2019 Fabian Brüning et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Management of an Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant with Bilateral Renal Obstruction Caused by Candida albicans Fungus Balls
title Management of an Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant with Bilateral Renal Obstruction Caused by Candida albicans Fungus Balls
title_full Management of an Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant with Bilateral Renal Obstruction Caused by Candida albicans Fungus Balls
title_fullStr Management of an Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant with Bilateral Renal Obstruction Caused by Candida albicans Fungus Balls
title_full_unstemmed Management of an Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant with Bilateral Renal Obstruction Caused by Candida albicans Fungus Balls
title_short Management of an Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant with Bilateral Renal Obstruction Caused by Candida albicans Fungus Balls
title_sort management of an extremely low birth weight infant with bilateral renal obstruction caused by candida albicans fungus balls
topic Case Report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3684734
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