Story of an Abscess: A Case of Mycobacterium abscessus Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient

Mycobacterium abscessus is a very unusual cause of infection in immunocompetent patients. It is a rapidly growing microbe that rarely causes disseminated infection or native valve endocarditis. This organism exhibits intrinsic and acquired resistance to multiple antibiotics and hence becomes a major...

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Autores principales: Maheshwarappa, Harish Mallapura, Machanalli, Girijapati, Thilakchand, KR, Tejaswini, Durgam DS
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Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9067494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35656038
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24182
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author Maheshwarappa, Harish Mallapura
Machanalli, Girijapati
Thilakchand, KR
Tejaswini, Durgam DS
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description Mycobacterium abscessus is a very unusual cause of infection in immunocompetent patients. It is a rapidly growing microbe that rarely causes disseminated infection or native valve endocarditis. This organism exhibits intrinsic and acquired resistance to multiple antibiotics and hence becomes a major issue in planning treatment regimens. We report a unique case of a young immunocompetent male patient presenting with stroke and persistent fever. After extensive investigations, he was found to have an abscess caused by M. abscessus in the sinus of Valsalva and thrombi in the aorta that was the sequelae following coronary angioplasty. This case report explains the difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of M. abscessus. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Maheshwarappa HM, Machanalli G, Thilakchand KR, Tejaswini DDS. Story of an Abscess: A Case of Mycobacterium abscessus Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(4):533–534.
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spelling pubmed-90674942022-06-01 Story of an Abscess: A Case of Mycobacterium abscessus Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient Maheshwarappa, Harish Mallapura Machanalli, Girijapati Thilakchand, KR Tejaswini, Durgam DS Indian J Crit Care Med Letter to the Editor Mycobacterium abscessus is a very unusual cause of infection in immunocompetent patients. It is a rapidly growing microbe that rarely causes disseminated infection or native valve endocarditis. This organism exhibits intrinsic and acquired resistance to multiple antibiotics and hence becomes a major issue in planning treatment regimens. We report a unique case of a young immunocompetent male patient presenting with stroke and persistent fever. After extensive investigations, he was found to have an abscess caused by M. abscessus in the sinus of Valsalva and thrombi in the aorta that was the sequelae following coronary angioplasty. This case report explains the difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of M. abscessus. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Maheshwarappa HM, Machanalli G, Thilakchand KR, Tejaswini DDS. Story of an Abscess: A Case of Mycobacterium abscessus Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(4):533–534. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9067494/ /pubmed/35656038 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24182 Text en Copyright © 2022; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© The Author(s). 2022 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial 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. 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.
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