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SYSTEMIC MONILIASIS AND ASPERGILLOSIS COMPLICATING CORTICOTROPIN THERAPY

ALTHOUGH there have been numerous reports * of systemic fungus infection following antibiotic therapy, there have been few in the literature of a systemic fungous infection complicating corticotropin therapy. Soffer and co-workers5described a fatal case of lupus erythematosus with extensive pulmonary fungus infection during cortisone treatment. Antopol and Quittner6described a fatal case of Hodgkin's disease with diffuse bronchopneumonia produced by Aspergillis niger during therapy with both cortisone and corticotropin (ACTH). Reynell, Martin, and Beard7described a fatal case of peritoneal moniliasis complicating a perforated peptic ulcer following corticotropin therapy. The case presented here is another incident of systemic fungus disease following the use of corticotropin. REPORT OF A CASE A 24-year-old white woman, whose first of four admissions to another hospital was on May 21, 1953, was seen because of anemia and bleeding gums of three to four months' duration. One week prior to this admission

The Presence of a Pulmonary Fungus in Korean Rodents

The Presence of a Pulmonary Fungus in Korean Rodents

Acute suppurative cholecystitis, with rupture of gall-bladder and liver abscess formation, during administration of cortisone.

Case Reports1 June 1953ACUTE SUPPURATIVE CHOLECYSTITIS, WITH RUPTURE OF GALL-BLADDER AND LIVER ABSCESS FORMATION, DURING ADMINISTRATION OF CORTISONESIDNEY REIFF, M.D.SIDNEY REIFF, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-38-6-1313 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIt is by now well established that intercurrent infections become worse while the host—either human or lower animal—is receiving cortisone. Cases have been described in which the following entities have developed while the patients were receiving cortisone1: thrombophlebitis, acne (to a greater extent than is usually ascribed to the masculinizing effect), abscess formation, tuberculosis, peritonitis, pulmonary fungus infections, bronchopneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, empyema, disseminated fungus disease, suppurative pericarditis, sinusitis and renal abscess. Experimentally, mice are prone to develop spontaneous infections while on cortisone; they are also known to withstand infections poorly while on cortisone. It has become a commonplace procedure to...Bibliography1. AntopolQuittner WH: The changing pattern of infectious processes under the influence of cortisone, J. Mt. Sinai Hosp. 19: 91-105, 1952. MedlineGoogle Scholar2. AntopolQuittnerGittlerDordickSaphra WHRJI: Occurrence of spontaneous infections after the administration of cortisone and ACTH, Bull. New York Acad. Med. 28: 540, 1952. MedlineGoogle Scholar3. Modern FW: ACTH, cortisone and surgery, Ann. West. Med. and Surg. 5: 153, 1951. MedlineGoogle Scholar4. Bockus HL: Gastro-enterology, vol. 3, 1946, p. 481-482, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Brooklyn, N. Y.*Received for publication November 15, 1952.From the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, N. Y. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited bySynchronous pyogenic liver abscess and acute cholecystitis: how to recognize it and what to do (emergency cholecystostomy followed by delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy)CholezystitisHormone 1 June 1953Volume 38, Issue 6Page: 1313-1315KeywordsAbscessesLiverMetastasisPeritonitisPneumoniaPulmonary diseasesRenal diseasesSepsisStaphylococcal infectionTuberculosis Issue Published: 1 June 1953 PDF downloadLoading ...