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Case Report: Management of Acanthamoeba Rhinosinusitis in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
July 2024
Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.
Infections caused by free-living amoebae pose a significant public health threat owing to growing populations of immunocompromised hosts combined with diagnostic delays, treatment difficulties, and high case fatality rates. Nasopharyngeal infections caused by Acanthamoeba are rare and the optimal treatment is not well established. We report a case of Acanthamoeba rhinosinusitis in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who presented with headaches and chronic rhinosinusitis refractory to multiple courses of antibiotics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Non-Keratitis Infections in the United States, 1956-2020.
Open Forum Infect Dis
January 2023
Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Background: is a free-living ameba that can cause severe disease affecting the central nervous system, skin, sinuses, and other organs, particularly in immunocompromised individuals. These rare but severe infections are often fatal, yet incompletely described.
Methods: Cases included were either reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Free-Living Ameba program or published in scientific literature.
An Unusual Source of Sinonasal Disease in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case Report of the Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Acanthamoeba Rhinosinusitis.
Ear Nose Throat J
August 2022
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA.
Chronic nasal crusting is a commonly encountered entity in an otolaryngology office. Progressive, extensive nasal crusting with erosion is relatively unusual, however. We present the case a 58-year-old renal transplant patient with a history of vasculitis and immunosuppression who presents with subjective headache and facial pain, nasal crusting, and isolated left ethmoid sinusitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcanthamoeba rhinosinusitis.
J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
June 2009
Division of Otolaryngology, St. Paul's Hospital,Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 1Y6, Canada.
Successful treatment of Acanthamoeba rhinosinusitis in a patient with AIDS.
AIDS Patient Care STDS
October 2005
Department of Internal Medicine, Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Saint-Luc University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Acanthamoeba infection is a rare, difficult-to-treat, and often fatal, opportunistic parasitic infection in immunocompromised hosts, such as patients infected with HIV. We describe an aggressive nasal and sinus infection by Acanthamoeba spp. in a person with AIDS.
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