Flexor tenosynovitis of the hand due to rare nontuberculous mycobacterium (<i>Mycobacterium haemophilum</i>) in an immunocompromised patient
Takuya Yokoi, Kosuke Saito, Takuya Uemura, Etsuko Takizawa, Noriaki Hidaka, Mitsuhiro Okada, Hiroaki Nakamura
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery · 2020-01
Abstract
We report a case of purulent flexor tenosynovitis caused by Mycobacterium haemophilum in an immunosuppressed patient who received renal transplantation. Three synovial debridements and multiple antimicrobial administrations with clarithromycin, rifampicin, and moxifloxacin have been performed. No apparent recurrence has been observed two years after the final operation.
MeSH terms
- Clarithromycin
- Medicine
- Tenosynovitis
- Nontuberculous mycobacteria
- Mycobacterium abscessus
- Rifampicin
- Moxifloxacin
- Mycobacterium chelonae
- Mycobacterium
- Mycobacterium avium complex
- Rifabutin
- Surgery
- Dermatology
- Microbiology
- Antibiotics