Necrotizing candida infection after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: A fatal and rare complication

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-287

  Wirth, Rainer ^a   Bauer, Jürgen ^b   Sieber, Cornel ^b  

^a St Marien Hospital Borken   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Candida; Elderly; Infection; Necrotizing; PEG; Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; AGITATION; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPHYSEMA; ENTERIC FEEDING; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GAS GANGRENE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SEPSIS; STOMACH FISTULA; SURGICAL INFECTION; TUBE REMOVAL; WOUND CLOSURE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 42449144283     PISSN: 01486071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0148607108316190     Document Type: Article

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