Abstract Background Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a potentially life-threatening disease with Escherichia coli ( E. ) being the most common aetiology. Infection can involve renal parenchyma, collecting system and perinephric tissues, commonly encountered in patients uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. EPN complicated by suppurative thrombophlebitis of inferior vena cava rare occurrence. Our...

Behçet's disease is a relapsing multisystem polysymptomatic disease with exacerbations and remissions defined by the presence of the major symptom, recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, plus two of the following: recurrent genital ulceration, eye lesions, skin lesions or a positive pathergy test. Mucocutaneous manifestations like oral and genital ulcers, and cutaneous lesions (papulopustular lesions,...

We describe the development of nonsusceptibility to daptomycin and vancomycin during treatment for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia associated with infective endocarditis and probable septic thrombophlebitis in a uremic patient. MRSA bacteremia persisted during glycopeptide and subsequent daptomycin treatment but cleared after 5 days' treatment with linezolid and fu...