Case | Reference, year | Age (years), gender | Underlying condition | Involved organs/sites | Antibiotic treatment, duration (days) | Catheter handling | Outcome |
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Hemato-oncological patients | |||||||
1 | Brorson, 1983 [9] | 75, f | Multiple myeloma | Blood | Gentamicin, Penicillin, 6 | Not specified | Recovery |
2 | Mongkolrattanothai, 2018 [10] | 1, f | Multisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), neutropenia | Blood | Not specified | Not specified | Short recovery, readmission after 4 days with subsequent death due to disseminated cryptococcosis |
3 | Correa-Martínez, 2019 (present case) | 3, m | Stage IV neuroblastoma, neutropenia | Blood | Piperacillin/ tazobactam plus gentamicin followed by meropenem plus teicoplanin, 11 | Removal of the indwelling Broviac catheter | Recovery |
Non-hemato-oncological patients | |||||||
4 | Sharma, 1974 [11] | 0.5, m | Recurrent respiratory tract infections. | Blood, urinary tract | Penicillin, < 1 | Not specified | Death |
5 | Kavkalo, 1985 [12] | 44, f | Cicatricial esophageal stenosis, subsequent gastrostomy. | Blood, abdominal cavity | Not specified | Not specified | Death |