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Query: UMLS:C0026986 (myelodysplastic syndrome)
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A case of a 38-year-old male farmer with a brain abscess caused by Cladophialophora bantiana is described. He had a 2 year history of non-insulin-dependent diabetes and myelodysplastic syndrome. A cranial computed tomography scan demonstrated a hypodense ring lesion with peripheral oedema and a midline shift in the left frontal lobe. A darkly pigmented mould was isolated from the brain abscess. The isolate was identified as C. bantiana based on its morphological features and DNA sequence analysis. The patient was unresponsive to burr hole aspiration and irrigation, as well as liposomal amphotericin B infusion, and died after discharge from the hospital. This is believed to be the first case of a cerebral abscess due to C. bantiana in China.
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PMID:Brain abscess caused by Cladophialophora bantiana in China. 2185 29

We describe an 81-year-old man receiving azacitidine monotherapy for myelodysplastic syndrome who was improving from Listeria monocytogenes bacteremia after receiving antibiotic therapy during an earlier hospital admission. Shortly after discharge he developed new-onset seizure activity, with brain imaging on subsequent admissions demonstrating a posterior right frontal lobe mass. Specimen cultures after resection of the mass revealed this to be a cerebral abscess related to L. monocytogenes. Brain abscesses related to this organism are rare.
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PMID:Solitary supratentorial Listeria monocytogenes brain abscess in an immunocompromised patient. 2613 Aug 81