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Getting it right first time in a patient with Candida peritonitis

¹Department of Intensive Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. D.W.deLange@umcutrecht.nl

|December 1, 2011

Abstract:

Here a patient is presented with a mediastinitis, pleural empyema and peritonitis with Candida glabrata and Enterococcus faecium after a complicated robot-assisted thoracolaparoscopic oesophagolymphadectomy esophagectomy. This case description highlights some of the therapeutic dilemmas that physicians face when treating critically ill patients with health care-associated invasive Candida infections. The current guidelines and treatment with echinocandins are discussed.

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