Publications by authors named "A Fica"
Fish tank granuloma has traditionally been associated with Mycobacterium marinum. We report the case of a 54 old-year woman that worked in a freshwater fish pet store and developed a skin ulcer in a hand finger with a suppurative granuloma secondary to Microbacterium paraoxydans. This is a bacterial fish pathogen, rarely observed in human infections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIsoniazid, a central compound in the treatment of active or latent tuberculosis, is associated with various adverse reactions, including hepatitis and polyneuropathy. The latter is due to functional pyridoxine depletion and can be avoided by appropriate doses and supplementation with pyridoxine. We present the case of a patient with several previous treatment abandonments for active pulmonary tuberculosis who evolved with late postprandial vomiting due to gastroparesis documented by nuclear medicine gastric emptying tests after a new treatment onset.
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- A pregnant woman with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia required treatment with daptomycin and cefazolin after vancomycin failed.
- Family contact analysis found a similar MRSA strain in her mother, but no MRSA was found in their household cats.
- This case highlights the potential for MRSA to affect pregnant women and indicates that combined therapies may be necessary while also considering family members as potential carriers that may need treatment.
Background: Histopathological analysis of tissue samples is an ancillary complementary diagnostic tool in tuberculosis (TB) with variable sensitivity and specificity according to different clinical settings. We evaluated the spectrum of histological findings, their diagnostic sensitivity, diagnostic utility, and requests over time in a sample of archival biopsies.
Methods: Analysis of biopsies of confirmed TB cases between years 2011-2019 at a reference hospital in Chile.
Article Synopsis
- Patients in adult psychiatric wards often experience a range of infectious complications or conditions that mimic infections, yet there's limited information on these issues.
- An observational study from 2016 to 2021 evaluated 37 patients, revealing that a significant portion of cases stemmed from an antimicrobial stewardship program, with most events showing identifiable infectious causes.
- The study found no mortality, highlighting that antibiotic monitoring is useful in detecting and managing diverse infectious problems in psychiatric settings, where some cases may also have non-infectious causes.