Fungal Septicemia in Patients Receiving Parenteral Hyperalimentation
- 25 November 1971
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 285 (22), 1221-1225
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197111252852203
Abstract
Thirty-three patients with fungal septicemia at the University of Minnesota Hospital were seen during an 18-month period, January, 1968, through August, 1969. Twenty-two of these 33 patients (67 per cent) had received parenteral hyperalimentation for severe gastrointestinal dysfunction. Fungal septicemia was not related to steroid therapy or immunologic deficiency i te patiets receiing hyperalimentation. However, a correlation with prolonged intravenous catheterization was found. More recently, during a prospective study of all patients receiving parenteral hyperalimentation, septicemia complicated the course of therapy in 13 of 49. In eight of these patients, Candida albicans was the causative microbial species.Keywords
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