[Small bowel biopsy as a cause of pseudomonas aeruginosa septicemia in a patient with intestinal lymphoma? (author's transl)].
A patient with intestinal lymphoma developed a gram-negative septicemia 48 hours following a peroral biopsy of the small intestine. The bacteriological examination of the instrument proved the same bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) which was the cause of septicemia. On the basis of our observation and of other reports it seems reasonable besides gassterilization or effective disinfection of the instruments to carry out cultural examinations of the instrument before and following endoscopic and bioptic investigations of patients with impaired resistance; it would then be possible to start an appropriate antibiotic treatment in case of a septic complication.
D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000209:etiology*; D013997:Time Factors
Dünndarmbiopsie als Ursache einer Pseudomonas-aeruginosa-Sepsis bei einem Patienten mit intestinalem Lymphom?