Candida glabrata liver abscess and fungemia complicating severe calculus cholecystitis in an immunocompetent nondiabetic host

South Med J. 2010 Mar;103(3):245-7. doi: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181c9803b.

Abstract

We report a rare case of Candida glabrata liver abscess and fungemia complicating severe calculus cholecystitis in a 64-year-old female patient who had no history of immunosuppression or diabetes mellitus. The patient underwent cholecystectomy, resection of liver abscess, and systemic antifungal therapy using micafungin.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antifungal Agents / administration & dosage
  • Candida glabrata / isolation & purification*
  • Candidiasis / complications*
  • Candidiasis / drug therapy
  • Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde
  • Cholecystectomy
  • Cholecystitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Cholecystitis / microbiology*
  • Cholecystitis / surgery
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Drug Resistance, Fungal
  • Echinocandins / administration & dosage
  • Female
  • Fungemia / complications*
  • Fungemia / drug therapy
  • Humans
  • Immunocompetence
  • Middle Aged
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Echinocandins