| Literature DB >> 18231719 |
M Mejdoubi1, A Huynh, C Danho, B Boot.
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A 37-year-old woman, during her second remission of acute myeloid leukemia, presented with severe neck pain and cervico-brachial neuralgia. Investigation revealed a C5-C6 spondylodiscitis. A CT-guided anterior biopsy decompressed the mass, immediately alleviated the symptoms, and isolated a rare yeast: Blastoschizomyces capitatus. To our knowledge, only three cases of spondylodiscitis with this yeast have been described. Six months of voriconazole and liposomal amphotericin B treatment produced a complete resolution on CT and MRI imaging. However, the ongoing severe yeast infection prevented the planned bone marrow allograft.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18231719 DOI： 10.1007/s15010-007-7081-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infection ISSN： 0300-8126 Impact factor: 3.553