title: Psoas abscess with osteomyelitis in a patient undergoing long-term hemodialysis.
abstract: We describe a 69-year-old male patient on maintenance hemodialysis for 24 years who developed a fatal left psoas abscess with osteomyelitis at the hip joint following acute enterocolitis. He had systemic beta(2)-microglobulin amyloid deposition in colon epithelium and psoas muscle. Cultures from abscess fluid and femoral bone marrow yielded Bacteroides fragilis. To our knowledge, this is the first case on hemodialysis having a psoas abscess following acute gastrointestinal infection. This rare case suggested that a secondary psoas abscess could be one of the occult infections in patients undergoing long-term maintenance hemodialysis.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan. akato@hama-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Furuhashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maruyama
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hishida
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001441:Bacteroides fragilis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004760:Enterocolitis / Q000382:microbiology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D016659:Psoas Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology*; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed