Listeria monocytogenes Meningitis in a Female Patient with Primary Mediastinal (Thymic) Large B-Cell Lymphoma: A Case Reportстатья
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Аннотация:Listeriosis with severe clinical manifestations in the form of bacteraemia, sepsis, and meningitis/meningoencephalitis is a rare but a challenging issue of supportive care in oncohematology. Early diagnosis of listeriosis, as well as any other infection, is hampered by severe general manifestations of a malignant lymphoproliferative disorder or tumor complications and its treatment. In patients with pronounced decreased drug-induced immunity listeriosis is usually characterized as a rapidly developing and, as a rule, severe disease with high immediate mortality. The present article offers a case report of severe listeria infection in a female patient admitted to the intensive care unit for the treatment of primary mediastinal (thymic) large B-cell lymphoma with a large tumor mass in anterior mediastinum complicated by mediastinal and superior vena cava compression syndromes.