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J T Bonoan

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Emphysematous pyelonephritis.

Emphysematous pyelonephritis, an uncommon severe necrotizing infection of the kidney, usually associated with diabetes mellitus, is a potentially fatal illness. We present a case of a 75-year-old woman with diabetes who was admitted with "pyelonephritis." The computed tomography scan of her abdomen revealed gas in the renal parenchyma, and emphysematous pyelonephritis was diagnosed. The patient had a total nephrectomy, and was treated with antibiotics. Blood cultures and operative cultures grew Escherichia coli.

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Postlaparoscopic traumatic inferior vena caval thrombosis.

Thrombosis of the inferior vena cava (IVC) is a rare disease. It has been reported in the literature in association with a variety of noninfectious diseases, particularly carcinoma of the kidney and liver, as well as abdominal trauma and percutaneous IVC filter placement. We report a case of IVC thrombosis in a young nonpregnant patient after laparoscopic pelvic surgery. We believe it is the first case in the literature of laparoscopic-induced IVC thrombosis.

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Bacillus species pseudomeningitis.

Bacillus species are aerobic gram-positive bacilli that are usually found in nature in the soil and dust. Except for B. anthracis, Bacillus species are organisms of low virulence, and only rarely cause infections in immunocompromised hosts. The recovery of Bacillus species from body fluids in healthy patients would suggest a Bacillus species pseudoinfection. Bacillus species has been associated with both pseudobacteremia and least commonly, pseudomeningitis. The Bacillus organisms usually contaminate liquid culture media, which have been implicated in Bacillus pseudoinfections of the blood and cerebrospinal fluid. We report a case of Bacillus pseudomeningitis in a normal host. To our knowledge, this is the third case of Bacillus pseudomeningitis reported in the literature.

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