Successful treatment of septic shock with purpura fulminans caused by Trichosporon asahii in an immunocompetent patient

Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2007 Autumn;37(4):366-9.

Abstract

Trichosporon asahii is an emerging mycosis characterized by high mortality rate in immunologically compromised patients. Only a few cases have been reported in immunocompetent subjects. We report a 46-yr-old man who had been healthy and who presented with septic shock and purpura fulminans caused by Trichosporon asahii. He responded well to antifungal therapy with amphotericin B and voriconazole.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • IgA Vasculitis / complications
  • IgA Vasculitis / microbiology
  • IgA Vasculitis / therapy*
  • Immunocompetence*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycoses / complications
  • Mycoses / diagnosis
  • Mycoses / therapy*
  • Shock, Septic / complications
  • Shock, Septic / microbiology
  • Shock, Septic / therapy*
  • Skin Transplantation
  • Trichosporon* / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents