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Clostridioides difficile Bacteraemia and Septic Arthritis in a Sickle Cell Disease Patient
Moayad Alqurashi1, Badr Madani2, Mohamed Mursi1
1Division of Adult Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
Extra-colonic Clostridioides difficile infection is rare. Here we describe a sickle cell disease patient with avascular necrosis who presented with persistent bacteraemia due to C. difficile and septic arthritis in a native knee joint, which responded very well to medical and surgical treatment but recurred multiple times within weeks of the cessation of antibiotics.
Learning Points:
Clostridioides difficile can rarely have a wide variety of extra-colonic manifestations.Patients with sickle cell disease may have a higher predisposition to extra-colonic C. difficile infection (CDI) with high mortality and recurrence rates.Intravenous metronidazole or vancomycin are the most widely used treatments for extra-colonic CDI.
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