Invasive candidal enterocolitis followed shortly by fatal cerebral hemorrhage in immunocompromised patients

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 795-797

  Cimbaluk, David ^a   Scudiere, Jennifer ^a   Butsch, John ^a   Jakate, Shriram ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida; Colon; Enterocolitis; Immunosuppression

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE;

ADULT; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LAPAROTOMY; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; CANDIDIASIS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COLONOSCOPY; ENTEROCOLITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 25444494702     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mcg.0000177237.82382.b8     Document Type: Review

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