title: [Multi-organ failure in a patient with fungaemia due to Saprochaete capitata].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The significant increase in systemic fungal infections is mainly due to the increase in immunocompromised patients. The high morbimortality of these infections, along with the high hospitalization costs they generate, makes them a problem of great importance in our hospital practice. Saprochaete capitata is a rare fungus that causes invasive infections, usually in immunocompromised patients, and for which there is still no consensus on the treatment regimen to be used.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present a case of disseminated infection by this fungus in a heavily immunosuppressed patient, who died as a result of multiple organ failure despite the life support measures taken and the wide spectrum antibiotics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is vital to begin the antibiotic treatment as soon as possible, as well as the monitoring and follow-up cultures to test for fungi in neutropenic patients.
authors: Servicio de Cuidados Críticos y Urgencias, Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez, Huelva, España. Electronic address: txabeli@hotmail.com.
authors: I
authors: I
authors: Villa López
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Doblas Claros
authors: J M
authors: JM
authors: Saavedra
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Herrera-Carranza
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000382:microbiology; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D055157:Dipodascus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004941:Esophagitis / Q000821:virology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D016469:Fungemia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000150:complications; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D009503:Neutropenia / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D000935:Antifungal Agents
keywords: Blastoschizomyces capitatus; Infección fúngica invasiva; Invasive fungal infection; Neutropenic patients; Pacientes neutropénicos; Saprochaete capitata