Orointestinal candidosis with special regard of the oesophagus

Orointestinal mycoses are localized mainly in the oral cavity and in the oe sophagus. Candida oesophagitis is not only found in AIDS-patients, also in patients of risk admitted to intensive care units. Upper intestinoscopies w ere made in 124 patients. Oesophageal candidosis was found in 6 patients, t wo of them had also Candida plaques in the stomach. The patients of the int ensive care unit had an Apache-II-score of 26,7, those with Candida oesopha gitis were 29,5. A significant increase in Candida antibodies was observed with 59 of 124 patients (47,6 %), including all patients with oesophageal c andidosis. Obviously also Candida infections of other localisations must be suspected. There was a correlation between the severity of endoscopic aspe cts and the invasiveness observed microscopically.