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Nocardiosis after corticosteroid therapy for malignant thymoma
A A Borges1, S H Krasnow, R G Wadleigh
1Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
Cancer
|March 1, 1993
Abstract
Background:
Nocardia asteroides is an opportunistic infection caused by an aerobic actinomycete, which, in the immunocompromised host, can be associated with severe invasive disease with a predilection for the brain.
Methods And Results:
The authors describe a 62-year-old man with a malignant thymoma that was clinically responsive to oral prednisone. N. asteroides sepsis subsequently developed, leading to his death.
Conclusions:
Nocardiosis should be considered a potential pathogen in this immunocompromised setting.