Bacteremia from streptococcus constellatus revealing a gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
Gut Pathog
; 16(1): 1, 2024 Jan 04.
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| ID: mdl-38178146
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Pyogenic Liver Abscesses (PLA) are the most common type of visceral abscess. They generally develop in a context of biliary disease or hematogenous seeding, but a complete diagnostic work-up is always required in order not to miss other important causes, including above all malignancies of the gastro-intestinal tract. CASE PRESENTATION Herein, we report a particular case of a 80 years-old immunocompetent woman hospitalized for sepsis. At the end of the diagnostic process, Streptococcus constellatus (Sc) was identified as the cause of sepsis, multiple PLA were found together with a previous unknown ileal malignancy. We speculated about a possible correlation among these three entities (i.e. sepsis from Sc, PLA and tumors).CONCLUSIONS:
Detection of Sc in blood should raise red flags in clinicians as aggressive clinical presentation are possible.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Gut Pathog
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Italia