A Rare Case of Candida parapsilosis Lumbar Discitis With Osteomyelitis

Fungal osteomyelitis is rare and usually seen in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of Candida parapsilosis osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient with no prior surgical history. He went for spinal laminectomy with debridement and drainage. Intraoperative culture grew C. parapsilosis,...

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Autores principales: Duplan, Patrick, Memon, Mohammad B, Choudhry, Humdoon, Patterson, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35855242
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25955
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author Duplan, Patrick
Memon, Mohammad B
Choudhry, Humdoon
Patterson, Jennifer
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description Fungal osteomyelitis is rare and usually seen in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of Candida parapsilosis osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient with no prior surgical history. He went for spinal laminectomy with debridement and drainage. Intraoperative culture grew C. parapsilosis, and the patient was treated with fluconazole.
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spelling pubmed-92860202022-07-18 A Rare Case of Candida parapsilosis Lumbar Discitis With Osteomyelitis Duplan, Patrick Memon, Mohammad B Choudhry, Humdoon Patterson, Jennifer Cureus Internal Medicine Fungal osteomyelitis is rare and usually seen in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of Candida parapsilosis osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient with no prior surgical history. He went for spinal laminectomy with debridement and drainage. Intraoperative culture grew C. parapsilosis, and the patient was treated with fluconazole. Cureus 2022-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9286020/ /pubmed/35855242 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25955 Text en Copyright © 2022, Duplan et al. https://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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Duplan, Patrick
Memon, Mohammad B
Choudhry, Humdoon
Patterson, Jennifer
A Rare Case of Candida parapsilosis Lumbar Discitis With Osteomyelitis
title A Rare Case of Candida parapsilosis Lumbar Discitis With Osteomyelitis
title_full A Rare Case of Candida parapsilosis Lumbar Discitis With Osteomyelitis
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Candida parapsilosis Lumbar Discitis With Osteomyelitis
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Candida parapsilosis Lumbar Discitis With Osteomyelitis
title_short A Rare Case of Candida parapsilosis Lumbar Discitis With Osteomyelitis
title_sort rare case of candida parapsilosis lumbar discitis with osteomyelitis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35855242
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25955
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