A case report of a pyogenic liver abscess caused by fusobacterium nucleatum in a patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-95

  Cigarrán, Secundino ^a   Neches, Carmen ^a   Lamas, José María ^a   García Trio, Gerardo ^a   Alonso, Mario ^a   Saavedra, Jesus ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DO MEIXOEIRO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease; Fusobacterium nucleatum; Hemodialysis; Pyogenic liver abscess

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CREATININE; FIBRINOGEN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METRONIDAZOLE; PROTHROMBIN; UREA; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; REMISSION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETERIZATION; DRAINAGE; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; REMISSION INDUCTION; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 38849158417     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2007.00548.x     Document Type: Article

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