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- Title
A Case of Odontogenic Infection by Streptococcus constellatus Leading to Systemic Infection in a Cogan's Syndrome Patient.
- Authors
Masanobu Abe; Yoshiyuki Mori; Ryoko Inaki; Yae Ohata; Takahiro Abe; Hideto Saijo; Kazumi Ohkubo; Kazuto Hoshi; Tsuyoshi Takato
- Abstract
Odontogenic infection in immunocompromised patients tends to extend systemically beyond the oral cavity. Our case report presents a patient with sepsis due to a Streptococcus constellatus (S. constellatus) odontogenic infection in a 64-year-old-immunocompromised woman with Cogan's syndrome. She had been suffering from chronic mandibular osteomyelitis which was thought to have been caused by dental caries and/or chronic periodontitis with furcation involvement of the left mandibular first molar. We suspect that the acute symptoms of the chronic osteomyelitis due to S. constellatus led to the systemic infection. This infection could be accelerated by the use of a corticosteroid and an alendronate. This is the first report which represents the potential association between odontogenic infection and Cogan's syndrome.
- Subjects
STREPTOCOCCUS; COGAN syndrome; SEPSIS; DENTAL caries; OSTEOMYELITIS; ADRENOCORTICAL hormones; ALENDRONATE; PATIENTS
- Publication
Case Reports in Dentistry, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2090-6447
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1155/2014/793174