Professional paper
An unusual infection in a patient with peripherally inserted central catheter
Jianjun Tang
; Intensive Care Unit The Second Xiangya Hospital Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410011, China
Abstract
A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is widely used in transfusion therapy and for monitoring many kinds of diseases, especially in critically ill patients. Compared with other catheters, it has a lower risk of catheter-related bloodstream infections. Aeromonas Hydrophila (AH) is a kind of opportunistic pathogen, vibrionaceae aeromonas, and gram-negative brevibacterium, widely distributed in nature, in all kinds of body fluid. It usually causes gastrointestinal infections, and rarely causes Aeromonas septicemia. To date, there has been no report of a PICC-related AH infection. We report the case of a 40-year-old female with breast cancer, who suffered post-op. severe sepsis and double lower limb cellulitis with multiple organ failure. All of this was due to AH invading the blood through the PICC.
Keywords
Aeromonas Hydrophila; peripherally inserted central catheter; sepsis; multiple organ failure
Hrčak ID:
170146
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Publication date:
1.12.2015.
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