Systemic Nocardia Infection in a Patient with Behcet's Disease
Behcet’s disease is a systemic inflammatory vascular disease with different clinical features. It may be necessary to use high-dose corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents during the course of the disease due to different complications. Nocardia is an opportunistic infection with a quite h...
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| author | Gülsüm Emel PAMUK Ömer Nuri PAMUK Fehmi TABAK Ali MERT Recep ÖZTÜRK Yıldırım AKTUĞLU |
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| description | Behcet’s disease is a systemic inflammatory vascular disease with different clinical features. It may be necessary to use high-dose corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents during the course of the disease due to different complications. Nocardia is an opportunistic infection with a quite high mortality which is frequently seen in immunocompromised subjects. We want to present a patient who was being followed with the diagnosis of uveitis resistant to therapy and who used long-term, high-dose immunosuppressives; consequently, he died due to systemic Nocardia infection. We diagnosed pulmonary infection, intramuscular abscess in the abdomen and multiple brain abscesses due to Nocardia infection. The patient whose clinical
condition deteriorated under therapy died. We think that the disseminated Nocardia infection was related to immunosuppressive therapy rather than Behcet’s disease. In our review of literature, we could not cite any report about disseminated Nocardia infection in a patient with Behcet's disease during this period (Medline 1966-August 2000). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e77183b8081546fab6248cf7c71c4adf2023-02-15T16:16:11ZengBilimsel Tip YayineviFlora Infeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi1300-932X1300-932X2001-06-0162126130Systemic Nocardia Infection in a Patient with Behcet's DiseaseGülsüm Emel PAMUK0Ömer Nuri PAMUK1Fehmi TABAK2Ali MERT3Recep ÖZTÜRK4Yıldırım AKTUĞLU5İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı,İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı,İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Klinik Bakteriyoloji ve İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İSTANBULİstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Klinik Bakteriyoloji ve İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İSTANBULİstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Klinik Bakteriyoloji ve İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İSTANBULİstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Klinik Bakteriyoloji ve İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İSTANBULBehcet’s disease is a systemic inflammatory vascular disease with different clinical features. It may be necessary to use high-dose corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents during the course of the disease due to different complications. Nocardia is an opportunistic infection with a quite high mortality which is frequently seen in immunocompromised subjects. We want to present a patient who was being followed with the diagnosis of uveitis resistant to therapy and who used long-term, high-dose immunosuppressives; consequently, he died due to systemic Nocardia infection. We diagnosed pulmonary infection, intramuscular abscess in the abdomen and multiple brain abscesses due to Nocardia infection. The patient whose clinical condition deteriorated under therapy died. We think that the disseminated Nocardia infection was related to immunosuppressive therapy rather than Behcet’s disease. In our review of literature, we could not cite any report about disseminated Nocardia infection in a patient with Behcet's disease during this period (Medline 1966-August 2000).http://www.floradergisi.org/getFileContent.aspx?op=REDPDF&file_name=2001-6-2-126-130.pdfBehcet's diseaseNocardia speciesImmunosuppressionBrain abscess |
| spellingShingle | Gülsüm Emel PAMUK Ömer Nuri PAMUK Fehmi TABAK Ali MERT Recep ÖZTÜRK Yıldırım AKTUĞLU Systemic Nocardia Infection in a Patient with Behcet's Disease Flora Infeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi Behcet's disease Nocardia species Immunosuppression Brain abscess |
| title | Systemic Nocardia Infection in a Patient with Behcet's Disease |
| title_full | Systemic Nocardia Infection in a Patient with Behcet's Disease |
| title_fullStr | Systemic Nocardia Infection in a Patient with Behcet's Disease |
| title_full_unstemmed | Systemic Nocardia Infection in a Patient with Behcet's Disease |
| title_short | Systemic Nocardia Infection in a Patient with Behcet's Disease |
| title_sort | systemic nocardia infection in a patient with behcet s disease |
| topic | Behcet's disease Nocardia species Immunosuppression Brain abscess |
| url | http://www.floradergisi.org/getFileContent.aspx?op=REDPDF&file_name=2001-6-2-126-130.pdf |
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