[Orointestinal candidiasis with special emphasis on esophageal candidiasis].
Orointestinal mycoses are localized mainly in the oral cavity and in the oesophagus. Candida oesophagitis is not only found in AIDS-patients, also in patients of risk admitted to intensive care units. Upper intestinoscopies were made in 124 patients. Oesophageal candidosis was found in 6 patients, two of them had also Candida plaques in the stomach. The patients of the intensive care unit had an Apache-II-score of 26.7, those with Candida oesophagitis were 29.5. A significant increase in Candida antibodies was observed with 59 of 124 patients (47.6%), including all patients with oesophageal candidosis. Obviously also Candida infections of other localisations must be suspected. There was a correlation between the severity of endoscopic aspects and the invasiveness observed microscopically.
Bernhardt
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Abteilung Endoskopie/Sonographie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald, Deutschland. j.berha@mail.uni-greifswald.de
D002175:Candida / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D004066:Digestive System Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000150:complications; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000150:complications; D004935:Esophageal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D004945:Esophagoscopy; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans
Candidosen im Orointestinaltrakt unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Osophagus.