LIVER-ABSCESSES DUE TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS IN A PATIENT WITH AIDS WHO UNDERWENT SMALL-BOWEL BIOPSY - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW

Authors
GUNNARSSON G FRIEDMAN LS WANKE C
Citation
G. Gunnarsson et al., LIVER-ABSCESSES DUE TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS IN A PATIENT WITH AIDS WHO UNDERWENT SMALL-BOWEL BIOPSY - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW, Clinical infectious diseases, 18(5), 1994, pp. 802-804
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,Immunology,"Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Clinical infectious diseases → ACNP
ISSN journal
10584838
Volume
18
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
802 - 804
Database
ISI
SICI code
1058-4838(1994)18:5<802:LDTSIA>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
A 36-year-old man with overgrowth of Staphylococcus aureus in the smal l bowel underwent a biopsy of the small bowel and presented 5 weeks la ter with multiple liver abscesses. To our knowledge, small bowel biops y has never been associated with liver abscesses. We discuss the liter ature on liver abscesses in patients with AIDS and the risks of bacter emia following upper endoscopy and small bowel biopsy and propose that the etiology of the liver abscesses in our patient was seeding of the portal vein following biopsy of a small bowel that had significant ba cterial overgrowth.