Propionibacterium acnes Causing Mediastinal Infection following Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

Katherine Janssen; Joseph Keenan; Roy Cho; Erhan Dincer

doi:10.1155/2019/3920868

Case Reports in Medicine (Jan 2019)

Propionibacterium acnes Causing Mediastinal Infection following Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

Katherine Janssen,
Joseph Keenan,
Roy Cho,
Erhan Dincer

Affiliations

Katherine Janssen: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Joseph Keenan: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Roy Cho: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Erhan Dincer: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/3920868
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2019

Abstract

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Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is now a standard of care to sample mediastinal lymph nodes and masses with high diagnostic accuracy and low complication rates. However, the procedure has potential complications that might be life-threatening. Here, we present the first case of Propionobacterium acnes (P. acnes) causing mediastinitis following EBUS-TBNA of a subcarinal lymph node.

Published in Case Reports in Medicine

ISSN: 1687-9627 (Print); 1687-9635 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1683

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