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Candida epiglottitis in an adult with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome treated with oral fluconazole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Leslie Israel  and
Majid Sadigh
Leslie Israel*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Majid Sadigh
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, ConnecticutUSA.
*
Address for correspondence: Dr Leslie Israel, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital, 56 Franklin Street, Waterbury, Connecticut 06706, USA. Fax: 203 591-3049
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Abstract

Candida epiglottitis has been reported in immunocompromised patients, but in only one paediatric patient with human immunodeficiency virus. We present possibly the first reported case of Candida infection of the epiglottis in an adult with human immunodeficiency virus treated with oral fluconazole. We review the symptoms, diagnosis. and management of the published cases of Candida epiglottitis in patients without the human immunodeficiency virus. Laryngoscopy and culture are diagnostic.

Keywords

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)Candida Epiglottitis; Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1)Fluconazole
Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 109 , Issue 4 , April 1995 , pp. 337 - 339
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1995

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