Multiple small bowel perforations due to invasive aspergillosis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia: case report and a systematic review of the literature.
Gregorio Di FrancoEnrico TagliaferriErica PieroniEdoardo BenedettiSimone GuadagniMatteo PalmeriNiccolò FurbettaDaniela CampaniGiulio Di CandioMario PetriniFranco MoscaLuca MorelliPublished in: Infection (2018)
Clinical manifestations of gastrointestinal aspergillosis are nonspecific, such as abdominal pain, and only occasionally it presents as an acute abdomen. Antemortem detection of bowel involvement is rarely achieved and, only in cases of complicated gastrointestinal aspergillosis, the diagnosis is achieved thanks to the findings during surgery. Gastrointestinal aspergillosis should be suspected in patients with severe and prolonged neutropenia with or without pulmonary involvement in order to consider the right therapy and prompt surgery.
Keyphrases
- minimally invasive
- small bowel
- acute myeloid leukemia
- abdominal pain
- coronary artery bypass
- pulmonary hypertension
- surgical site infection
- liver failure
- early onset
- pulmonary embolism
- respiratory failure
- intensive care unit
- allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- bone marrow
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- mesenchymal stem cells
- quantum dots
- chemotherapy induced