Table 1.
Year |
Country |
Age (years) |
Gender |
Previous conditions |
Symptoms/findings at admission |
Sample |
Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 |
Denmark |
76 |
Female |
Multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome |
Asymptomatic. No clinical findings. Increase in CRP |
Blood |
Present case |
2018 |
Spain |
77 |
Male |
Multiple myeloma, sigmoid colon cancer. Received chemotherapy |
Sleepiness, bone pain, low-grade fever, acute respiratory failure, hypotension, oliguria with acute kidney injury |
Blood |
[2] |
2018 |
Belgium |
66 |
Female |
Fecal peritonitis, small bowel herniation and perforation |
Not available |
Blood |
[3] |
2017 |
Spain |
72 |
Female |
Hip implant |
Dysuria, groin pain, fever |
Granuloma/pseudotumour tissue and sonicate from the prosthetic implant |
[8] |
2017 |
Republic of Korea |
82 |
Female |
DM, cholecystitis and CBD stone treated with ERCP and stent |
Fever, cough, abdominal pain. CAT with gall bladder perforation |
Blood |
[6] |
2017 |
Spain |
93 |
Female |
IHD, type 2 DM, hip prosthesis |
Groin pain |
Pus and sonicate from the prosthetic implant |
[9] |
2015 |
France |
62 |
Male |
Ulcerative colitis, hip prosthesis |
Hip pain, fever |
Bone |
[4] |
2014 |
France |
47 |
Male |
Squamous cell carcinoma, suspected gastrointestinal fistula |
Hip pain, fever |
Joint fluid |
[7] |
2013 |
Denmark |
67 |
Male |
Disseminated lung carcinoma |
Abdominal pain, neutropenia. Laparotomy showed perforated diverticulitis |
Blood |
[5] |
90 |
Male |
Diverticular disease |
Abdominal pain, vomiting, fever. CAT with diverticulosis |
Blood |
CRP: C-reactive protein; DM: diabetes mellitus; CBD: common bile duct; ERCP: endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; IHD: ischemic heart disease; CAT: computerized axial tomography