1. Plesiomonas shigelloides pneumonia
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N. Lang, Wolfgang Hiddemann, F. Schneider, H. Ostermann, H.J. Michaely, and R. Reibke
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Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Jejunostomy ,Torsades de pointes ,Unconsciousness ,Adenocarcinoma ,Lesion ,Gastrectomy ,Stomach Neoplasms ,Torsades de Pointes ,Tachycardia ,medicine ,Humans ,Aged ,Inflammation ,Lung ,biology ,business.industry ,Stomach ,Respiratory disease ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Radiography ,Pneumonia ,Diarrhea ,Infectious Diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Plesiomonas shigelloides ,Ventricular Fibrillation ,Plesiomonas ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections ,business - Abstract
Plesiomonas shigelloides is known to cause mild to cholera-like diarrhea in most infected persons. In immunocompromised patients extra-intestinal manifestations have been described. We report the first case of pneumonia caused by P. shigelloides in a 76-year-old woman who had undergone a curative gastrectomy and esophageal-jejunostomy due to a low differentiated adenocarcinoma of the stomach (pT2, pN1 pMx, G3, R0, Lauren: intestinal type). The patient was admitted in hospital with clinical signs of pulmonary infection. CT-scan revealed a cavernous lesion in the right upper pulmonary lobe. Bronchial lavage showed a granulocytic inflammation 105 CFU/ml P. shigelloides. Although antibiotic treatment led to a decrease of inflammation parameters and decrease of the pulmonary infiltrate the patient died due to development of torsades de pointes tachycardia leading to ventricular fibrillation and hypoxic brain damage.
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- 2009