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Torulopsis glabrata fungemia from infected transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt stent.

Brickey TW, Trotter JF, Johnson SP

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, 80220, USA.

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS) are used to manage multiple complications of portal hypertension. Accounts of infection of TIPS stents are uncommon. The literature reports two cases of TIPS-associated Torulopsis glabrata (Candida glabrata) fungemia; both patients died within a year of TIPS placement despite therapy with intravenous antifungal agents. This report describes the successful long-term survival of a patient with Torulopsis TIPS stent infection.

Published 5 May 2005 in J Vasc Interv Radiol, 16(5): 751-2.
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