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ReviewInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2025

Disseminated Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection Following Cerebral Shunt Infection Caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Mio Toyama-Kousaka, Masahiro Shinoda, Takushi Yoshida, Marino Fujisaki, Takashi Sato, Miwa Morikawa, Hidenori Takahashi, Nagashige Shimada, Hiroaki Takei, Masaharu Shinkai

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Review in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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10 authors.

Mio Toyama-KousakaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.
Masahiro ShinodaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.
Takushi YoshidaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.
Marino FujisakiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.
Takashi SatoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.
Miwa MorikawaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.
Hidenori TakahashiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.
Nagashige ShimadaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.
Hiroaki TakeiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.
Masaharu ShinkaiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 64-year-old, previously healthy woman underwent repeated shunt removal and reinsertion for shunt dysfunction due to hydrocephalus. Mycobacterium fortuitum was detected in the culture solution at the end of the removed lumboperitoneal shunt approximately one year before the diagnosis; however, the result was considered to represent environmental contamination. The patient was hospitalized because of a high-grade fever, and M. fortuitum was detected in two blood cultures and a cerebrospinal fluid culture. We diagnosed the patient with disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infection due to M. fortuitum and removed the ventriculoatrial shunt. Multiple antimicrobial agents (imipenem/cilastatin, linezolid, ciprofloxacin, and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole) were administered for approximately two months, and the symptoms improved.

Indexed as

Cerebrospinal Fluid ShuntsMycobacterium fortuitumMycobacterium Infections, NontuberculousVentriculoperitoneal ShuntAnti-Bacterial AgentsFemaleHumansHydrocephalusMiddle AgedAnti-Bacterial Agentscerebral shunt infectiondisseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infectionMycobacterium fortuitumrapidly growing mycobacteriaventriculoatrial shunt

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PMID40467497
PMCPMC12804481

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