A Case of Ventriculitis Associated with Renal Abscess Caused by Serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae.
- Author:
Ji In HYUN
1
;
Youn Jeong KIM
;
Yoon Hee JEON
;
Sang Il KIM
;
Yeon Joon PARK
;
Moon Won KANG
;
Woohyeon KIM
;
Ji Hye JANG
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Klebsiella pneumoniae; Abscess, Kidney; Cerebral ventriculitis; Central nervous system infection
- MeSH: Abscess*; Aged, 80 and over; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Central Nervous System Infections; Cerebral Ventriculitis; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Female; Humans; Klebsiella pneumoniae*; Liver Abscess; Neurologic Manifestations; Pneumonia
- From:Infection and Chemotherapy 2014;46(2):120-124
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Recently, serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae has been a major agent of an invasive syndrome characterized by liver abscess and its metastatic infection. Extrahepatic infection and its characteristics in patients with renal abscess caused by K. pneumoniae are poorly understood, and few cases of central nervous system infection have been reported. This is a report of 80-year-old woman with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus with renal abscess caused by serotype K1 K. pneumoniae, complicated with ventriculitis despite of appropriate use of antibiotics. Physicians need to be aware of possibility of metastatic infection in patients with serotype K1 K. pneumoniae infection, if they develop neurologic symptom and focus of infection is still present.
