Epididymitis Caused by Candida glabrata
A novel infection in diabetic patients?
- Aris Giannopoulos, MD, PHD1,
- Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, MD, PHD2,
- Ioannis Adamakis, MD1,
- Irene Georgopoulou2,
- George Petrikkos, MD, PHD2 and
- Nikolaos Katsilambros, MD, PHD2
- 1First Department of Urology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
- 2First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
Visceral candidiasis is uncommon in patients with type 2 diabetes (1). Here, we discuss the sixth known case report of fungal epididymitis in a diabetic patient and only the second one caused by Candida glabrata. Two cases of epididymitis caused by C. glabrata have been described in nondiabetic patients, one in an HIV-positive individual (2), and the other in a permanently catheterized patient (3).
An 81-year-old male type 2 diabetic patient who was on a twice-daily insulin regimen was admitted for intermittent fever and confusion over the previous 2 days. Past history revealed a stroke 2 years earlier that led to permanent urinary catheterization, along with several short courses of oral …
