Bacteriemia por Clostridium sordellii en paciente con neoplasia gastrointestinal. Reporte de caso y revisión de literatura

Abstract

Clostridium sordellii bacteriemia is infrequent and usually comes from infections of gynecological and puerperal etiology, with mortality near 70%. There are few tools for rapid and timely diagnosis. Thus, treatment experience for this pathogen is very limited in other scenarios, which is probably the cause of high mortality rates. We describe a patient with a history of expansive abdominal mass, diagnosed with metastasic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST), with Clostridium sordellii bacteremia.

Keywords

• clostridium sordellii
• sepsis
• bacteremia
• intraabdominal neoplasm.