Cavitary pulmonary disease in a patient on dialysis

Semin Dial. 2021 May 28. doi: 10.1111/sdi.12984. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA 24-year-old man on maintenance hemodialysis presented with bilateral cavitary consolidations and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia following ulceration of the skin over his arteriovenous (AV) fistula cannulation site. A diagnosis of septic pulmonary embolism was made, which presumptively originated from a localized MSSA infection of his AV access. He had an excellent response to a 28-day course of cloxacillin, with the resolution of the pulmonary lesions.PMID:34048609 | DOI:10.1111/sdi.12984

Source: Seminars in Dialysis - May 28, 2021 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tanuj M Lamech Govindasamy Nithya Dhanapalan Aiswarya Bhagavatula V R H Sastry Venkatesh Arumugam Natarajan Gopalakrishnan Source Type: research