DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF A SOLITARY INFECTED HEPATIC CYST IN 2 PATIENTS WITH ADULT POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY-DISEASE

Citation
U. Gladziwa et al., DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF A SOLITARY INFECTED HEPATIC CYST IN 2 PATIENTS WITH ADULT POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY-DISEASE, Clinical nephrology, 40(4), 1993, pp. 205-207
Citations number
19
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Urology & Nephrology
Journal title
ISSN journal
0301-0430
Volume
40
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
205 - 207
Database
ISI
SICI code
0301-0430(1993)40:4<205:DATOAS>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We report on two women (one 52-year-old who underwent kidney transplan tation 15 months ago and the other, 71-year-old, undergoing hemodialys is) both with adult polycystic kidney disease who had to be hospitaliz ed because of recurrent fever attacks up to 40-degrees-C without any r emarkable abdominal symptoms. Staphylococcus hominis and E. coli were recovered respectively from blood cultures of both patients. Evidence for the presence of a solitary infected cyst in the liver could only b e obtained by computed tomography (CT) with i.v. administration of a c ontrast medium. In both cases the infected liver cyst was nonoperative ly drained with a CT-guided percutaneous catheter and therefore the ne cessity of laparotomy was avoided.