Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Reemergence of Intravenous Drug Use as Risk Factor for Candidemia, Massachusetts, USA
Table 3
Organ system involvement in patients with candidemia at a tertiary care hospital, Massachusetts, USA, 2010–2017*
Manifestation | No. (%) patients |
p value | |
---|---|---|---|
IVDU, n = 24 | Non-IVDU, n = 174 | ||
Endocarditis | 4 (16.7) | 5 (2.9) | 0.014 |
Brain abscess | 1 (4.2) | 0 | 0.121 |
Septic emboli, lung | 1 (4.2) | 0 | 0.121 |
Retinitis | 0 | 4 (2.3) | 1.00 |
Osteomyelitis | 2 (8.3) | 0 | 0.014 |
*IVDU, intravenous drug use.