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Sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review
BACKGROUND: Toothpicks are common foreign bodies which may injure surrounding organs leading to a series of atypical symptoms. We present a rare clinical case that septicemia caused by a toothpick penetrated into the right kidney. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a 51-year-old patient who presented wi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8811973/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35109820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07058-2 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Toothpicks are common foreign bodies which may injure surrounding organs leading to a series of atypical symptoms. We present a rare clinical case that septicemia caused by a toothpick penetrated into the right kidney. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a 51-year-old patient who presented with right-sided backache and hematuresis for 2 days. Blood culture persistently grew Streptococcus gordonii. Ultrasound of the patient’s urinary tract revealed a strong striated echo in the middle of the right kidney. Complete abdominal computed tomography revealed a duodenal foreign body penetrating into the right kidney. The toothpick was removed under endoscopy and hemostasis was given. Antibiotic treatment was upgraded. The patient was recovered and discharged from his stay on the fifteenth day. CONCLUSIONS: Early identification of the etiology of sepsis can effectively alleviate patient’s distress and reduce hospital stay. Clinicians should identify the source of sepsis through a medical history and examination. |
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spelling | pubmed-88119732022-02-03 Sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review Qi, Qi Chen, Lingxin Kou, Guoxian BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Toothpicks are common foreign bodies which may injure surrounding organs leading to a series of atypical symptoms. We present a rare clinical case that septicemia caused by a toothpick penetrated into the right kidney. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a 51-year-old patient who presented with right-sided backache and hematuresis for 2 days. Blood culture persistently grew Streptococcus gordonii. Ultrasound of the patient’s urinary tract revealed a strong striated echo in the middle of the right kidney. Complete abdominal computed tomography revealed a duodenal foreign body penetrating into the right kidney. The toothpick was removed under endoscopy and hemostasis was given. Antibiotic treatment was upgraded. The patient was recovered and discharged from his stay on the fifteenth day. CONCLUSIONS: Early identification of the etiology of sepsis can effectively alleviate patient’s distress and reduce hospital stay. Clinicians should identify the source of sepsis through a medical history and examination. BioMed Central 2022-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8811973/ /pubmed/35109820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07058-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Qi, Qi Chen, Lingxin Kou, Guoxian Sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review |
title | Sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review |
title_full | Sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review |
title_fullStr | Sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review |
title_full_unstemmed | Sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review |
title_short | Sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review |
title_sort | sepsis due to kidney injury caused by a toothpick: a case report and literature review |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8811973/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35109820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07058-2 |
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