Bacteraemia by P. aeruginosa associated with nephrotic syndrome after shunt operation for hydrocephalus.

One patient of sepsis by P. aeruginosa after the implanting of a ventriculoatrial valve following extirpation of an expansive intracranial process is studied. During the evolution of the septic process there appeared as associated nephrotic syndrome with histologic lesions corresponding to an acute exudative glomerular nephritis. The germ became resistant to the antibiotics used, carbenicillin plus gentamicin, being later sensitive only to fosfomycin with which finally complete cure was achieved.