Pseudallescheria Boydii Brain Abscess. Complication of an Intravenous Catheter

Overview

Journal Am J Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1988 Feb 1

PMID 3407662

Citations 7

Authors

R E Perez

M Smith

J McClendon

J Kim

N Eugenio

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Abstract

An adult patient survived a brain abscess with Pseudallescheria boydii. She received intraventricular miconazole, 20 mg every 72 hours (minimal inhibitory concentration = 0.4 microgram/ml), and surgery. The abscess resulted from an infected central venous catheter (Port-A-Cath) and steroid therapy. Miconazole caused a ventriculitis. There are 12 reported cases of P. boydii brain abscesses from 1965 to 1985 with only two survivors.

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