Peritoneal coccidioidomycosis

PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled “Peritoneal coccidioidomycosis” (Rev Gastroenterol Mex. 2005 Oct-Dec;70(4):434-8). Authors are Esmer-Sanchez D, Alfaro-Sousa A, Tostado-Fernandez FA, еt al., from the Departamento de Cirugia, Centro Medico del Potosi-Hospital Angeles de San Luis Potosi. Peritonitis is a very rare condition that has been found on inmunocompromised patients and patients on peritoneal dialysis. The authors present a case of a 50 year old female with chronic abdominal pain that was found to have coccidioidomycosis. An US was performed and reported a schleroatrophic and litiasic gallbladder. Exploratory laparoscopy was performed, the findings were diffuse lesions in the peritoneal cavity parietal and visceral, some of them were biopsied. A peritoneal coccidioidomycosis was reported and fluconazol treatment was started. Coccidioideal peritonitis is a rare disease, most of the patients are asymptomatic and frequently diagnosed while working up other disease. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.