Fulminant Emphysematous Pyelonephritis byCandida glabratain a Kidney Allograft
- 1 June 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Nephron
- Vol. 144 (6), 304-309
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000507259
Abstract
Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a rare and serious necrotizing infection that is potentially life-threatening. It has been seldom reported in kidney grafts and is usually caused by Gram-negative bacteria, with some case reports caused by anaerobic bacteria, and has been closely associated with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus (DM) and urinary tract structural abnormalities. There are no reports of EPN of fungal etiology in kidney grafts. We present a case of a 53-year-old kidney transplant recipient with a history of DM, active vesicoureteral reflux, and recurrent urinary tract infections who developed EPN in the kidney allograft caused byCandida glabrata, 3 weeks after starting treatment with empagliflozin, with an aggressive course that required urgent transplant nephrectomy.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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